ANCESTOR

One who has preceded another in a direct line of descent; a lineal ascendant. · A former po e or; the person last seised. Termes de la Ley; 2 BI. Comm. 201. A deceased person from whom another has -inherited land..A. former po e or. Bailey v. Bailey, 25 ~Iich. 185; McCarthy T, Marsh, 5 N. Y. 275; Springer v. Fortune, 2 ·Handy, (Ohio,) 52. In this sense a child may be the "ancestor" of his deceased parent, or one brother the "ancestor" of an• other. Lavery v. Egan, 143 Ma . 889, 9 N. E. 747; Murphy v. Henry, 35 Ind. 450. The term difrers from "predece or," in that it is applied to a natural person and his progenitors, while the latter ta applied also to a corporation and those who have held otlf,~ bei'ot"e those who now fill them. Co. Lltt. 78b. · [s. 74]