Consanguinity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Lineal descendant
all descendants, male and female, Bhimnath Missir v. Sm. Tara Dai, AIR 1929 PC 162. The terms 'lineal consanguinity' and 'lineal descent' have been defined in Whartoris Law Lenicon, 14th Edn., Second India Reprint 1994 as: 'Lineal
Marriage
PD 80, and 51 Geo. 3, c. 37. Prohibited Degrees.--Down to 1835, marriages within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity (see 32 Hen. 8, s. 38, printed 1 Rev. Stat. N.S. 370, as referring to 28
Affinity
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,
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Inheritance
The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral consanguinity of the owner dying intestate. These rules have been abolished in the case of deaths after January 1st,
affinity
affinity pl: -ties : relationship by marriage compare consanguinity
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.
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
natural
result of the accident] 3 a : begotten as distinguished from adopted b : being a relation by consanguinity as distinguished from adoption [ parents] 4 : illegitimate [a child] nat·u·ral·ly adv
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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