"Antecessor" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

L. Lat In old Eng-lish law. An abatement of freehold; an en-try upon lands by way of Interposition be-tween the …

Coming to an intestate ln any other way than by gift, devise, or descent from a parent or the ancestor …

In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold es-tate. It is of three kinds: (1) Upon a …

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

In Roman law. The term in-cluded “all the cognates who trace thelr connection exclusively through males. A table of cognates …

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a …

one who has preceded an-other in a direct line of descent; a lineal ascendant

With regard to ancestors.

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

Relating to ancestors, or to what has been done by them; as homage anecstrel

A female ancestor.

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

n. spirit, ghost of ancestor; superstition. v. /AG-/ to worship the ancestral spirits. Saan mo nga patien dagiti aganito. Don’t …

An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; …

Passage upwards; the trans-mission of an estate from the ancestor to tbe heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent. …

Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.