Lineal Consanguinity - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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)...
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...
Consanguinity
The relation of persons by blood in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage blood relationship as lineal consanguinity collateral consanguinity...
Consanguinity, or kindred
Consanguinity, or kindred, the connection or rela-tion of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. It is either lineal or collateral. Lineal is that which subsists between persons, of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other, as between son, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and so upwards in the direct ascending line; or between son, grandson, great-grandson, and so downwards in the direct descending line. Collateral agree with the lineal in this, that they descend from the same stock or ancestor, but differ in this, that they do not descend one from the other. See MARRIAGE (Prohibited Degrees)....
consanguine
consanguine : consanguineous ...
consanguinity
consanguinity : the quality or state of being consanguineous ...
Lineal
Descending in a direct line from an ancestor hereditary derived from ancestors opposed to collateral as a lineal descent or a lineal descendant...
Lineally
In a lineal manner as the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror...
Lineal warranty
Lineal warranty, where the heir derived, or might by possibility have derived, his title to the land warranted, either from or through the ancestor who made the warranty; as where a father or an elder son in the life of the father released to the disseisor of themselves, or of the grandfather, with warranty, this was lineal to the younger son, Litt. S. 703. Abolished by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Abolition Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), s. 14....
consanguineous
consanguineous : of the same blood or origin ;specif : descended from the same ancestor con·san·guin·e·ous·ly adv ...
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