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  • ANCESTORShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCESTORS

    ANCESTORS, Progenitors; or those from whom a Person is descended. See PROGENITOR. The Word is derived from the Latin Ancestor, wrote, by Contraction, for Antecessor, gone before. The Law distinguishes between Ancestor and Predecessor; the former being...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    At fourteen, she may take her Lands into her own Hands; and should be out of Ward, if she were at this Age at her Ancestor’s Death. At sixteen, she should be out of Ward; though at the Death of her Ancestor she was under fourteen: The Reason is, that...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    possessory, which lie for lands, etc., of his own possession, or seisin; and ancestral, of the seisin or possession of his ancestor. See ANCESTRAL. But Real Actions, formerly so numerous and considerable, as Writs of Rights, of Entry, etc., with their...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    Persons, to take Cognizance of some one or two Cases, as a Disseisin, or the like—This was frequently practiced among our Ancestors. Bracton, lib. 3. c. 12. Assize, or Assise, is also used for a Writ directed to the Sheriff, for the Recovery of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    upon him. See FELONY and TREASON. The children of a person attainted of treason cannot be heirs to him, or any other ancestor; and if he were noble before, his posterity are hereby degraded and made base: Nor can this corruption of blood be saved but by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law
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