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Home Dictionary Name: grandchildgeneration-skipping transfer
generation-skipping transfer : a transfer of property or of an interest in property that is to a person of a generation more than one generation below that of the transferor and that can be characterized as a taxable termination, a taxable distribution, or a direct skip see also direct skip generation-skipping trust at trust, skip person, taxable distribution, taxable termination NOTE: A transfer from a grandparent to a grandchild qualifies as a generation-skipping transfer, as does a transfer of a life estate to a child with a remainder in the grandchild. Such transfers are subject to a generation-skipping transfer tax. ...
child
child pl: chil·dren 1 : a son or daughter of any age and usually including one formally adopted compare issue NOTE: The word child as used in a statute or will is often held to include a stepchild, an illegitimate child, a person for whom one stands in loco parentis, or sometimes a more remote descendant, such as a grandchild. In interpreting the word child as used in a will, the court will try to effectuate the intent of the person who made the will as it can be determined from the language of the will. 2 : a person below an age specified by law : infant minor [assault on a under 16 years of age] compare adult NOTE: A person who is below the statutory age but is married will usually be considered an adult. ...
collation
collation [French, from Latin collatio bonorum (in Roman law) contribution made by emancipated heirs to an estate under an intestate succession, literally, bringing together of goods] in the civil law of Louisiana : the actual or supposed return of goods to the mass of the succession that is made by an heir who received property in advance for the purpose of having the property divided with the rest of the succession compare hotchpot NOTE: Children and grandchildren of a decedent must return anything that they received in advance by donation inter vivos. Further, they cannot claim legacies made to them unless made expressly by the decedent as an advantage over their coheirs to be received besides their portion of the succession. Donations made to a grandchild by a grandparent during the life of the child's father are not subject to collation. A collation may be made in kind by the actual delivering up of the thing given, or by taking less from the succession in proportion to the v...
Grandchild
A sons or daughters child a child in the second degree of descent...
Great grandchild
The child of ones grandson or granddaughter...
Nephew
A grandson or grandchild or remoter lineal descendant...
Abnepos
Abnepos, the son of a great grandchild.Means a great-great grandson; the grandson of a grandson or granddaughter, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5....
Cousin
Cousin [fr. Cousin, Fr.; cugino, It.; consobrinus, Lat., whence cusdrin, susrin; sabrino, Sp.]. A cousin is any collateral relation except brothers and sistes, and their descendants, and the brothers and sisters of any ancestor. The child of A.'s uncle or aunt is called his cousin-german, or first cousin, and the child, grandchild, etc., of such cousin is called his first cousin once, twice, etc., removed. The grand child of A.'s great-uncle is his second cousin, and the chld, grandhchild, etc., of such cousin is his second cousin, once, twice, etc., removed, and so on. This distinction between first cousins once removed and second cousins is well recognized by the law [see Re Parker, (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 sovereign addresses a nobleman, or a member of the Privy Council, as a 'cousin,' and when we s...
Lineal descendant
Lineal descendant, Lineal descendant would mean the offspring of lawful marriage and not offspring of union which is not that of husband and wife. The plain meaning of lineal descendant is one who is in the blood stream of the ancestral such as child or grandchild of the remotest degree. There cannot be any other meaning of this word, Sunderlal Chourasiya v. Jejila Chourasiya, AIR 2004 MP 138. [see Hindu Succession Act 30 of 1956, s. 8; Succession Act 39 of 1925, ss. 107, 109]The term 'lineal descendants' is not restricted to male descendants. But is wide enough to include 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 Consanguinity, that relationship which subsists between persons descended in a right line, as grandfather, father, son, grandson. Lineal Descent, the descent of an estate from ancestor to he...
Nabira
Nabira, in common parlance it means any issue of the son and is not confined only to grandson but is applied to grandchild, Shah Manzoor v. Shamsul Nahar, AIR 1949 Pat 526 (527): 4 DLR Pat 135....
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