Relating to ancestors, or to what has been done by them; as homage anccstrcl. Derived from ancestors. Ancestral estates are such as are transmitted by descent, and not by purchase. 4 Kent, Comm. 404. Brown v. Whaley, 58 Ohio St 054, 49 N. E. 479, 05 Am. St. Rep. 793.
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