PEDIGREE

A Law Dictionary · 1910 · p. 18

Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person descends; genealogy. An account or register of a line of ancestors. Family relationship. Swink v. French, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 80, 47 Am. Rep. 211·; People.v. Mayne, 118 Cal. 516, 50 Pac. 654, 62 Am. St. Rep. 256. [s. 891]