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Affinitas affinitatis
Affinitas affinitatis, the connection which has neither consanguinity nor affinity, as, the connection between a husband's brother and his wife's sister.
Collateral
side; applied in several ways, thus:--collateral assurance, that which is made over and above the deed itself; collateral consanguinity or kindred, which descend from the same stock or ancestor as the lineal relation, but do not descend
Cousin
(1881) 17 Ch D 262]. The word 'cousin' properly means the children of brothers and sisters and implies consanguinity, but it is sometimes used in a loose and vague sense without any such implication, as when the
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Descent
Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), as 'the title to inherit lands by reason of consanguinity, as well where the heir shall be an ancestor or collateral relation as where he shall be a
Frank-marriage
liable to no service except fealty, and a reserved rent would be void until the fourth degree of consanguinity be past between the issues of the donor and donee, when they were capable by the law of
Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act
Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 54) rendered marriages within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity absolutely null and void. Theretofore such marriages were voidable merely. See MARRIAGE.
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