Forefather - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: forefatherForbear
An ancestor a forefather usually in the plural...
Forefather
One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree but usually in a remote degree an ancestor...
Primogenitor
The first ancestor a forefather...
Progenitor
An ancestor in the direct line a forefather...
Lammas
Lammas [said to be derived from a custom by which the tenants of the Archbishop of York were obliged, at the time of Mass, on the 1st of August, to bring a live lamb to the altar. In Scotland they are said to wear lambs on this day. It may be corrupted from latter-math. Others derive it from a Saxon word, signifying loaf-mass, because on that day our forefathers made an offering of bread composed of new wheat], the gule or 1st of August, and the second of the four cross quarter-days of the year, Encyc. Londin.; Wheat. Com. Pr....
Non omnium qu' a majoribus constituta sunt ratio reddi potest
Non omnium qu' a majoribus constituta sunt ratio reddi potest. (A reason cannot be given for all things our forefathers were pleased to ordain.)...
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