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Ancestral

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Relating to ancestors or to what has been done by them; as homage ancestrel. Derived from ancestors. Ancestral estates are such as are transmitted by descent, and not by purchase.

4 Kent, Comm. 404. Brown v. Whaley, 58 Ohio St 654, 49 N. B. 479, 65 Am. St. Rep. 793.