Antecessor

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.