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Definition of Descents
1. descent [n] - See also: descent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descents
Literary usage of Descents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1872)
"I shall also pass over the frequent division of descents into those by custom,
statute, and common law : for descents by particular custom, ..."
2. Littleton's Tenures in English by Thomas Littleton, Eugene Wambaugh (1903)
"descents which toil entries are in two manners, to wit, where the descent ...
descents in fee which toll entries are, as if a man seised of certain lands or ..."
3. The Code of Virginia: With the Declaration of Independence and Constitution by Virginia (1849)
"Course of descents generally. 2. To collaterals of half blood. 3. ... The act of
October 1785, directing the course of descents, is in 12 Hen. Stat p. ..."
4. The Genealogist's Guide by George William Marshall (1893)
"Royal descents of Lord Farnham from Henry II., King of England, forming an
introduction to the Royal descents from Henry III. 4to. ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Abstracts and Examinations of Title to Real Property by George William Warvelle (1892)
"General rule of descents. 22. 7. The right of representation. ... Abstract of
descents. 11. Ancestral estates — Half 26. blood. ..."
6. The Aryan Household: Its Structure and Its Development : an Introduction to by William Edward Hearn (1891)
"Among the Gothic nations the custom of the Three descents appears to have been
universal. ... Three descents of freedom were necessary to give the right of ..."
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