Meanings
- Being or pertaining to a predecessor.
Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of ...
1999, Arthur F. Kinney, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN2 more examples
Applicant is successor to the Seaboard & Roanoke, through merger and consolidation, and through agreement has assumed obligations of the predecessory company.
1927, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, page 876What Oliphant has meant tot tribes is that states have predecessory rights but tribes do not. How did this happen west of the Mississippi, where there were clear tribal-nation predecessory rights established in treaties prior to the establishment of any status of statehood in the West?
2001, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 57
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