first purchaser

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first purchaser - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  FIRST PURCHASER. In the English law of descent, the first purchaser was he 
  who first acquired an estate in a family, which still owns it. A purchase of 
  this kind signifies any mode of acquiring an estate, except, by descent. 2 
  BI; Com. 220.