One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tenure, land, descended, father, sons.
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Gavelkind
A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.
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