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and medieval Teutonic peoples esp Scandinavians the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen also the ownership of such land The odal was subject only to certain rights of

Planning

an area with particular reference to the location, character, and extent of streets, squares, and parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, American Jurisprudence, 2nd (Vol. 82, at p. 388). Planning, connotes a systematic development contrived to

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Cousin

of drastic changes which were introdued by s. 45 of the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, all kindred of an intestate more remote than first cousins and their issue have been debarred from any claim to

Family

or affinity; a person's children regarded collectively; those descended or claiming descent from a common ancestor; a house, kindred, lineage; a race; people or group of people. According to Aristotle (Politics I), it is the characteristic of

In simili materia

In simili materia, dealing with the same or a kindred subject-matter.

Incest

Incest, carnal knowledge of persons within the Levitical degrees of kindred, at one time a capital offence (4 Bl. Com. 65); but subsequently left to the action of the

Inheritance

whole blood. (7) That in collateral inheritances the male stocks shall be preferred to the female (that is, kindred derived from the blood of the male ancestors, however remote, shall be admitted before those from the Blood

Kyth

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

Lineal descendant

son, grandson. Lineal Descent, the descent of an estate from ancestor to heir in right line.' Consanguinity, or kindred, the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor it is either lineal

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