Grandfather - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: grandfathergrandfather
grandfather : to permit to continue under a grandfather clause [current residents will be ed under the regulation] often used with in ...
grandfather clause
grandfather clause : a clause creating an exemption (as from a law or regulation) based on circumstances previously existing ;specif : a provision inserted in the constitutions of some southern states after the Civil War requiring high standards of literacy and substantial property qualifications of voters except for descendants of men voting before 1867 ...
Grandfatherly
Like a grandfather in age or manner kind benignant indulgent...
Great grandfather
The father of ones grandfather or grandmother...
Lineal consanguinity
Lineal consanguinity, that relationship which subsists between persons descended in a right line, as grandfather, father, son, grandson.(1) Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other, as between a man and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, and so upwards in the direct ascending line; or between a man and his son, grandson, great-grandson and so downwards in the direct descending line.(2) Every generation constitutes a degree, either ascending or descending.(3) A person's father is related to him in the first degree, and so likewise is his son; his grandfather and grandson in the second degree; his great-grandfather and great-grandson in the third degree, and so on. (Succession Act, 1925, s. 25)...
Aiel, or Aile
Aiel, or Aile, [fr. aieul, Fr.; avus Lat., a grandfather], a writ which lay when a man's grandfather, or great-grandfather (called besaile), died seised of lands in fee-simple, and on the day of his death the heir was dispossessed of his inheritance by a stranger, Fitz N. B. 222....
Distribution, Statute of
Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, enacts that the surplusage of intestates' personal estate (except of femes covert, the administration and enjoyment of whose estates belonged, at Common Law, to their husbands-but see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY) shall, after the expiration of one year from the death of the intestate, be distributed in the following manner: one-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if there be no children or legal representative subsisting ,then a moiety shall go to the widow, and a moiety to the next of kindred in equal degree, and their representatives; if no widow, the whole shall go to the children; if neither widow nor children, the whole shall be di...
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...
Patruus
Patruus, an uncle by the father's side, a father's brother; magnus, a grandfather's brother, great-uncle; major, a grant-grandfather's brother; maximus, a great-grandfather's father's brother....
Abavus
Abavus [fr. Avusavus, avavus, Lat.], a great-grandfather's father.In Civil Law, a great-great grandfather, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. p. 2....
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial