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Adjective: ancestral  an'ses-trul
  1. (law) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
    "ancestral home";
    - hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible
     
  2. Of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

See also: heritable, inheritable

Encyclopedia: Ancestral