First Purchaser
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
The first acquirer (perquisitor,) of an estate. He who first acquired an estate to his family, or first brought an estate into the family which at present owns it, whether the same was transferred to him by sale, or by gift^ or by any other method, except only that of descent.
2 Bl. Cotn. 220. 1 Steph. Com. 355.
Styled among the Norman jurists, the conqueror or conquereur. Grand Coust. Ghss. c.
25. 1 Steph. Com. ub, sup.
In the English law of descent this phrase seems to be less used than formerly.
See 1 Steph. Com. 357, chap. xi.
And see the opinion of Story, J., 2 Peteri E. 5€» 89—94.