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mort d'ancestor Old Law.|mɔːˈdænsɪstə(r)|
Also 6 mortaunceter, mort(d)auncesto(u)r, 7, 9 mortdancester, (8, -or), 7 mort d'ancester, mordauncester.
[a. AF. mordancestre, mort d'auncestre ‘ancestor's death’.]
The term applied to an assize brought by the right heir against one who wrongfully took possession of his inheritance on the death of his ancestor (see Britton iii. vi.).
1523Fitzherb. Survey. 13 The kynges writ of assise of nouell disseson or of assise of mortaunceter. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 2 §2 That no maner of persone..shall herafter have sue or maintain any issue of Mortauncestor [etc.]. 1543tr. Act 9 Hen. III, c. 12 Assyses of newe dysseisin, and of mortdauncestour. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. v. §383. 165 If Tenant in Taile of land hath issue and dyeth and a stranger abateth..and the issue in tayle bring an Assise of Mordauncester. 1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 27 §36 No Writ..of Mort d'ancestor..shall be brought after the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. 1875Digby Real Prop. ii. §9 The writ of assize of Mort d'Ancestor was perhaps instituted by the ordinance called the Assize of Northampton, a.d. 1176. |