A part of this landed estate remained in the possession of his lineal descendants until long after the revolutionary war.
To him there remained no brother, no sister, no child, no lineal descendant.
The supreme title seems to have been fatal for a generation to the family that obtained it, for in no case is there a lineal descent of the crown.
But the claim of lineal succession was still formidable to a plebeian usurper; and his jealousy was stimulated by the complaints and charges of the Chersonites, who beheld the vices of the tyrant in the spirit of the exile.
A linealsuccession of five emperors, in a period of one hundred and sixty years, had attached the loyalty of the Greeks to the Macedonian dynasty, which had been thrice respected by the usurpers of their power.
The incredulity of the former was countenanced by the visible circumstances of his birth, the legal marriage of the reputed parents, Joseph and Mary, and his lineal claim to the kingdom of David and the inheritance of Judah.
Two hundred families supply, in lineal descent, the second branch of English legislature, which maintains, between the king and commons, the balance of the constitution.
Theodoric the Ostrogoth, the fourteenth in linealdescent of the royal line of the Amali, was born in the neighborhood of Vienna two years after the death of Attila.
Shah Alam, the lineal heir of the Mogul line, was thus permitted to ascend the throne of Delhi, where he lived during the great part of a long life as a puppet in the hands of Mahadji Sindhia.
To fill the peshwa's place to some extent at the head of the Mahratta confederacy, the lineal descendant of Sivaji was brought forth from obscurity, and placed upon the throne of Satara.
In less than a hundred years we find this same government again deluging Europe in blood, to reseat upon the throne the miserable Ferdinand, the lineal descendant of this Bourbon prince.
Spain put in his claim for the Austrian crown as the lineal descendant of the Emperor Charles V.
Frederic, the emperor, Duke of Styria, was now the oldest lineal descendant of Rhodolph of Hapsburg, founder of the house of Austria.
They have inherited from their fathers in a lineal descent, their names, nationality, and wealth, and in many instances their consular dignity.
A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .
A grandson or grandchild, or remoterlineal descendant.
This First Elector is his lineal ancestor, twelve times removed.
This last opinion was strengthened by the shabby gentleman with the red nose and oilcloth hat, and whom I strongly suspected of being a lineal descendant from the variant Bardolph.
Here live the lineal descendants of Thor, christianised to human industries.
It may be the lineal descendant of Noah's raven that has come down to this particular community without a cross with any other branch of the family.
Is it not plain that each of them professes to trace the lineal descent of one and the same man, Joseph?
The priestly fancy of an hereditary or lineal sacredness can have no place here.
That Joseph, the very husband of Mary, from whom Christ was born, being thus shown to be a lineal descendant of David, the Evangelist stops.
Thus, in the English law of inheritance, until the passing of the Inheritance Act 1833, an estate belonging to a deceased intestate would pass to his uncle or aunt, to the exclusion of his father or other lineal ancestor.
It seems more likely, however, that these associations explained rather than that they suggested the rule--that the omission of the lineal ancestor existed in custom before it was discovered to be in harmony with the law of nature.
Their own traditions aver (and in many cases their physiognomy affords strong support to the contention)[63] that they are the lineal descendants of the ancient Assyrians.
They are lineal descendants of her carp that inhabit its waters to this day.
When one of the Lumleys was pushing on his lineal ascent beyond the patience of the hearers, the king, to cut short the tedious descendant of the Lumleys, cried out, "Stop mon!
If Plutarch were credulous, La Mothe Le Vayer sceptical, and Bayle philosophical, all that can be said is, that though the heirs of the family may differ in their dispositions, no one will arraign the integrity of the lineal descent.
Robert Turold was the linealdescendant of the name, and worthy of the title.
The pride of the Turold family rested on the belief that they were of noble blood--the lineal inheritors of a great English title which had fallen into abeyance hundreds of years before.
But the family clung fast to their belief that they were the lineal descendants of the Turralds of Buckinghamshire.
Sussex) was a lineal descendant, in the ninth descent, of the aforesaid baronet of James the First's time.
The poet was no lineal descendant of the Justice of the Common Pleas, who may be fairly styled the founder of the Michelgrove House.
Immediately after the death of the admiral, Don Diego came forward as lineal successor, and urged the restitution of the family offices and privileges, which had been suspended during the latter years of his father's life.
Of Columbus no lineal and direct descendant exists; his was an exotic stock which never took deep and lasting root in the country; but the race of the Pinzons continues to thrive and multiply in its native soil.
To these parties was added Bernard Colombo of Cogoleto, who claimed as lineal descendant from Bartholomew Columbus, the Adelantado, brother to the discoverer.
My obliging landlord himself volunteered to conduct me thither, and I set off full of animation at the thoughts of meeting with the lineal representative of one of the coadjutors of Columbus.
