[L. Fr. conquereur; L. Lat. conquæstor, conquestor, conquisitor, qq. v.] In old English and Scotch law. The first purchaser of an estate; he who brought it into the family owning it. 2 Bl. Com. 242, 243. "If conquest lands, after the decease of the conquerour, do ascend to any person," &c. Skene de Verb. Sign. voc. Conquestus. Clearly formed from the L. Fr. conquereur, (q. v.) According to Blackstone, William the Norman was called "The Conqueror," to denote that he was the first of his family who acquired the crown of England. 2 Bl. Com. ub. sup. Spelman more explicitly says that he was called Conquestor, (Conqueror,) because he conquered, that is, acquired or purchased England, not because he subdued it, (non quod subegit). Gloss. voc. Conquestus. And, in another passage, that he was called "Conqueror," because he succeeded to the crown of England, not by hereditary right, but under the will of Edward the Confessor, that is, (according to the old French idiom,) by quest and conquest, commonly called purchase. Id. voc. Questus. See Conquest. Lat. In old pleading. I complain. Conqueror quod talis mihi injuste detinet―talem rem; I complain that such a one unjustly detains from me such a thing. An old form of declaring. Bract. fol. 102 b. Si tenens conqueratur; if the tenant complain. Id. fol. 156 b. An estate itself, so purchased or acquired. Otherwise termed acquest. 1 Reeves Hist. Eng. Law. 29.-That which we possess, not by transmission from ancestors, but as acquired by labor, money or economy. Spelman, voc. Conquestus. And see Skene de Verb. Sign. voc. Conquestus. In Scotch law, property acquired by a man during marriage was called conquest, in contradistinction to property which he succeeded to as heir to an ancestor, or executor to a person deceased. Ersk. Inst. b. 3, tit. 8, § 43. The term was used in the same sense, in the capitularies of the old French kings, and other records of the same early period. Conquests are acquisitions of goods made during marriage, (acquisitions de biens faictes durant le mariage). Lindenbrog. in Capit. Carol. lib. 4, c. 74. Conquest is called by another old writer, acquest made by any one, with his money, labor, industry and means, without the tenure of succession from ancestors. Nicod. in Dict. Spelman (voc. Questus,) calls this "the ancient and genuine signification of the word." ** * According to Sir William Blackstone, (who is followed by Mr. Stephen,) the term conqueror was originally applied to William I. and conquest to his mode of acquiring the crown of England, in the proper feudal sense of those terms, (as already explained, supra,) rather than with reference to the success of his arms. 2 Bl. Com. ub. sup. 1 Steph. Com. 355. This interpretation has been construed by some later writers into an unwillingness, on the part of the commentator, to acknowledge that the English or Saxons were actually conquered, in the modern and ordinary acceptation of the word; and some pains have been taken to prove this to have been