单词 | lineal warranty |
释义 | > as lemmaslineal warranty b. Pertaining to or transmitted by lineal descent. lineal warranty (see quot. 1767). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [adjective] > in direct line > relating to lineal1486 1486 in Surtees Misc. (1888) 54 By cource of liniall possession. 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catech. (1853) 173 The Jews claimed..the Church of God as peculiar and by lineal right due to their nation. 1626 S. D'Ewes Let. 4 Feb. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 217 To whome the crowne of his auncestors and predecessors is now devolved by lineall right. 1719 E. Young Busiris i. 6 Busiris, who now Reigns, was first of Males In Lineal Blood, to which this Crown descends. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 301 Lineal warranty was where the heir derived, or might by possibility have derived, his title to the land warranted, either from or through the ancestor who made the warranty. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 120 As if they waged some lineal feud with time. 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer III. 520 In lineal dignity, he [Anchises] was even before Priam. < as lemmas |
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