Descent - Law Dictionary Search Results
Discent
Discent. See DESCENT.
Lineage
Descent in a line from a common progenitor progeny race descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage
Escarpment
A steep descent or declivity steep face or edge of a ridge ground about a fortified place cut away nearly vertically
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Descendible
Admitting descent capable of being descended
Cadency
Descent of related families distinction between the members of a family according to their ages
Bathos
A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low in writing or speech anticlimax
Hade
The descent of a hill
Coparceners or parceners
Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act of
Inheritance
by right of representation as his heir t law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral consanguinity of the owner dying intestate. These rules have been
worthier title
a devise of an estate that is the same as the estate he or she would receive by descent if the grantor died without a will receives the property by descent rather than by devise since descent
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