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Riens per descent

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Lineal descent

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Coparceners or parceners

who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal

Inheritance

law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral consanguinity of

worthier title

same as the estate he or she would receive by descent if the grantor died without a will receives the property

Gavelkind

Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925,

Lineal descendant

AIR 1929 PC 162. The terms 'lineal consanguinity' and 'lineal descent' have been defined in Whartoris Law Lenicon, 14th Edn., Second

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