Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Assisa de morte antecessoris

see assize of mort d'ancestor under assize (s)

Haeres est eadem persona cum antecessore

The heir is the same person as the ancestor.

Haeres est pars antecessoris

An heir is a part of the ancestor.

Nobiles sunt qui arma gentilitia antecessorum suorum proferre possunt

The gentry are those who are able to produce the heraldic arms of their own ancestors.

antecessor

n. [latin] 1. roman law. a professor of law. 2. hist. an ancestor. 3. hist. a predecessor to an office.