Predecessory

Applicant is successor to the Seaboard & Roanoke, through merger and consolidation, and through agreement has assumed obligations of the predecessory company.

Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of ...

What 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?