Anarchy

2 The absence of government; a state of society in which there is no law or supreme power. 3 " K the conspiracy had for its object the Hestruetion of the law and government, it had for its object the bringing about of practical anarchy. And when murder has resulted from the conspiracy and the perpetrators are on trial for the crime, whether or not they were anarchists may be a proper circumstance to be considered in coimection with other circumstances, with a view,of showing what connection, if any, they had with the conspiracy and what were their purposes in joining it." 3 See further as to case cited, Accessary; Challenge, 4; Character; Charge, 3 (2, c); Conspiracy; Courts, United States; Criminate; Doubt, Reasonable; Jury; Malice; Opinion, 2. Alf CESTOR.4 The last person actually seized of an inheritance.^ In the law of descents the prepossessor of an estate. 6 The ascendant of an intestate in the right line, as father, mother, grandfather, grandmother.'' The person from whom an estate descends; not a progenitor, in the popular acceptation. 8 It is the immediate, and not the remote, ancestor from whom the estate descends.* 1 Eex V. Richardson, 1 Burr. B3B (1758), Mansfield, C. J.; 1 B. & Ad. 936; L. E., 5 H. L. 636. See generally 34 Cent. Law J. 99 (1887), cases. ^ Gk. anarchi'a, lack of government: an'archos, without a chief. ' [Spies et al. v. People, 122 HI. 253 (Sept. 14, 1887), Magruder, J., — " Anarchists' Case.". [Webster's Diet. Same case, 9 Cr. Law Mag. 839, 926-35, cases; 12 N. E. Eep. No. 16; 18 Chic. Leg. News, 809, 411. *F. cmcessour, a fore-goer: L. antecessor: ante cedere, to go before. = 3 Bl. Com. 209, 443; 2 Kent, 404, 419. « [Mc Carthy v. Marsh, 5 N. T. 375 (1851). ' [Valentine v. Wetherill, 31 Barb. 659 After the rule was adopted that inheritances might ascend, tbe ancestor was the person from whom the inheritance devolved upon the heir, and a child might, therefore, be the ancestor of his parent.' ' Common ancestor. The parent from whom designated persons have sprung. In the Ohio statute of descents the ancestor is any one from whom the estate is inherited. The ancestor from whom it must " have come to the intestate "is he from whom it was immediately inherited. Such ancestor takes the place of the first purchaser under the English canons of descent.. No remote ancestor has any favorable estimation here. Neither the primary definition nor the legal sense of the word agrees with the most popular and obvious signification. He from whom the estate was immediately inherited is the ancestor, the propositus, from whom the estate came.^ Embraces collaterals as well as lineals through whom an inheritance is derived, and refers to the immediate ancestor.'' Uncles, aunts, and other collateral " antecessors " who are not in fact "ancestors " are sometimes designated as " collateral ancestors." In its ordinary import " ancestors " includes only those from whom the person spoken of is lineally descended on the father's or the mother's side. When used in a sense different from its ordinary import of lineal antecessors, so as to embrace all the blood relatives preceding the person referred to, it is qualified or enlarged by some other t6rm.* " Maternal ancestor " in the Massachusetts statute of 1851, u. 311 (relating to illegitimate children), is limited to progenitors in the direct ascending line, according to the common meaning and the only sense in which "ancestor" is used throughout the statute of descents and distributions.^ See further Consanguinity; Descent; Heir;- Inherit.