Maternal Ancestor
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The words maternal ancestor are manifestly limited to progenitors, or ancestors in the direct ascending line, according to their common meaning and the only sense in which the word "ancestor" is used throughout the statute of descents, the rules of which statute are declared to be those of the statute of distributions also. 108 Mass. 42.