Antecessor
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
An ancestor (g. v.)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I.
In old English law. One who goes or has gone before another in the possession of an estate; an ancestor; a predecessor in an office.
In the Roman law. A teacher, professor or master of the laws; a person learned in the law, but not a professor.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
An ancestor, (g. v.)
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat. [from antecedere, to go before.] In old English law. An ancestor; one who goes or has gone before another, in the possession of an estate; one who goes before an heir. Antecessores — qui mortui sunt et hoeredes antecedunt, i. e., cedunt ante, et haredes cedunt eis sub, quasi succedunt; ancestors — who are dead, and precede the heirs, i. e., they go before, and the heirs go after, or succeed them. Bract, fol. 67. See Id. fol. 281. Assisa mortis antecessoris; assise of mort d'ancestor, (q. v.) Id. lib. 4, tract. 3.
In the Roman law. A title corresponding with teacher or professor of law. Inst. proem. § 3.