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Next of kin

heir, executor, or administrator, or person entitled as next of kin under the statute of Distributions; by the nineteenth s., that

out letters of administration if there be no next of kin, or the next of kin will not. And see BANKRUPTCY,

to the widow, and a moiety to the next of kindred in equal degree, and their representatives; if no widow, the

Kyth [fr. cognatus, Lat.], kin or kindred.

claimants claim in their own right, in equal degree of kindred, and not jure representationis (per stripes), in the right of

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