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blood relative : a relative by common descent compare affine ...
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....
Half blood
Half blood, means two persons one said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e); Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b)]The relationship through one only and not through both of the parents or other ancestors. By the old law a relative of the half-blood could not inherit real estate, but this was altered by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106). In the succession to personal estate there was no distinction between the whole and the half-blood until 1926, when the Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, ss. 46 & 47, enacted that the half-blood are only entitled to the distribution of an intestate estate on the total absence of the whole blood in equal degree; see FRATER FRATRI, etc.The relationship existing between persons having the same mother or father, but not both parents in common, Bl...
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....
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 ...
descendant
descendant also de·scen·dent [di-sen-dənt] n : a blood relative of a later generation ...
parentela
parentela [Late Latin, from Latin parent- parens parent + -ela (as in clientela clientele)] : the line of blood relatives : the kin of a person by descent par·en·te·lic [-lik] adj ...
in law
A person who is related by marriage as distinguished from a blood relative esp mother in law the mother of ones spouse father in law the father of ones spouse brother in law the brother of ones spouse or husband of ones spouses sister sister in law the sister of ones spouse or wife of ones spouses brother...
Full blood and half blood
Full blood and half blood, two persons are said to be related to each of the by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor or but by different wives. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 3 (c)](i) two persons are said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife, and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives;(ii) two persons are said to be related to each other by uterine blood when they are descended from a common ancestress but by different husbands;Explanation.--In this clause 'ancestor' includes the father and 'ancestress' the mother. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e)]...
immediate relative
immediate relative Spouse, widow(er) and unmarried children under the age of 21 of an American citizen. A parent is an immediate relative if the American citizen is 21 years of age or older. There are no numerical limits to immigration of immediate relatives. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
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