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Descendant

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

One who is descended from another; a person who proceeds trom the body of another, such as a child, grandchild, etc., to the remotest degree. The term in a will, and includes all who proceed from the body of the person named; as grandchildren and great-grandchiidren.

Amb. 897; 2 Hil. Real. Prop. 242.