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Affinity, relationship by marriage between the husband and the blood relations of the wife, and between the wife and the blood relations of the husband, 1 Bl. Com. 434.Affinity is distinguished into three kinds, (1) Direct, or that subsisting between the husband and his wife's relations by blood, or between the wife and the husband's relations by blood. (2) Secondary, or that which subsists between the husband's and his wife's relations by marriage. (3) Collateral, or that which subsists between the husband and the relations of his wife's relations.Marriage within the prohibited degrees of affinity as well as of consanguinity as printed in the (English) Prayer Book Table is void by s. 2 of the (English) Marriage Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 54), as varied by the (English) Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship Act, 1907 to 1931. See CONSANGUINITY; MARRIAGE....
affine
affine [Middle French affin, from Latin affinis, from affinis related, from ad to + finis end, border] : a relative by marriage compare blood relative af·fi·nal [-fī-nəl] adj ...
affinity
affinity pl: -ties : relationship by marriage compare consanguinity ...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Challenge
Challenge [fr. Challenger, O. F., to accuse of], an exception taken either against things or jurors.In civil actions, when a full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as the jurors originally returned. Challenges are of two kinds: (1) to the array; (2) to the polls; and each of these is again subdivided into principal challenges, and challenges to the favour.(1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some partiality or default in the sheriff or his under-officer who arrayed the panel; this is either (a) a principal challenge, as that the sheriff or other returning officer is of kindred or affinity to the plaintiff of defendant, if the affinity continue; that one or more of the jury are returned at the nomination of the plaintiff or defendant; that an action of battery is pending at the suit of the plaintiff or defendant against the sheriff, or at the sui...
Family
Family, in relation to a person, includes the ascend-ant and descendant of such person. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976), s. 2(h)]. A group consisting of parents and their children; a group of person connected by blood by affinity, or by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 620.In relation to an occupier, means the individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such individual, and their children, brother or sister of such individual. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (v)]In relation to an operator, means his wife and dependant children and includes his dependent parents. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (g)]Means:(i) In the case of a male-subscriber the wife or wives, parents, children, minor brothers, unmarried sisters, deceased son's widow and children and where no parent of the subscriber is alive, a paternal grandparent: Provided that if a subscriber proves that his wife has be...
Savour
Savour, to partake of the nature of; to bear affinity to. Money in any way connected with land, e.g., money secured by mortgage of real or leasehold property, or a legacy charged on land, was said to 'savour of the realty,' and prior to the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1891, could not be bequeathed to a charity.To partake of the character of or bear affinity to something, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1344....
Stranger in blood
Stranger in blood, a person in no degree of relation-ship to another. See schedule to the Stamp Act, 1815 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Death Duties'), by which 10 per cent. duty is payable on a legacy 'to or for the benefit of any stranger in blood to the deceased' testator. An illegitimate child is treated by the Inland Revenue authorities as a 'stranger in blood' within the Act; but see May and August numbers of the Law Magazine and Review of 1905. Aliter as to legitimated children, see Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 7.One not related by blood, such as relative by affinity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1433....
Relative
Relative, 'relative' means, in the context, near rela-tions set out in s. 27(2) of the Estate Duty Act, 1953 and in this case the accounting persons are both relatives, Controller of Estate Duty v. Shri Kantilal Trikamlal, AIR 1976 SC 1935: (1976) 4 SCC 643: (1977) 1 SCR 9.It includes any person related to the mentally ill person by blood, marriage or adoption. [Mental Health Act, 1987, s. 2 (t)]A person connected with another by blood or affinity; a kinsman, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1291....
Relatedness
The state or condition of being related relationship affinity...
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