Kin Or Kindred - Definition - Law Dictionary

Definition :

Kin or Kindred [fr. cynren, Sax.], relation by blood.

There are two degrees of kindred: the one in the lineal or direct line ascending or descending, and the other in the collateral or indirect line.

The right of representation of kindred for the purposes of distribution of personalty, in the descending line, reaches beyond the great-grandchildren of the same parents; but in the collateral line it was not allowed to reach beyond brothers' and sisters' children under the Statutes of Distribution, but now the right is conferred on the issue of any person entitled to succession upon intestacy of person dying after 1925 (except parents or grand-parents) under the (English) Statutory Trusts, s. 47, (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925.