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Lineal descent
Lineal descent, the descent of an estate from ancestor to heir in a right line....
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...
Lineal
Descending in a direct line from an ancestor hereditary derived from ancestors opposed to collateral as a lineal descent or a lineal descendant...
Inheritance
Inheritance, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir t law.The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral consanguinity of the owner dying intestate.These rules have been abolished in the case of deaths after January 1st, 1926, with a few exceptions (see HEIR), by the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 51, but they still affect the devolution before 1926 of all titles to estates of inheritance.Inheritance Act.--The Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), materially altered the old canons of real property descent, but because the Act does not extend to any descent which took place on the death of any person who died before the 1st of January, 1834, it is deemed expedient to give both old and new:-Old Canons.--The old Canons, which obtain in cases of ancestors dying before the 1st of January, 1834...
collateral
collateral 1 a : accompanying as a secondary fact, activity, or agency but subordinate to a main consideration b : not directly relevant or material [a evidentiary matter] [a issue] 2 : belonging to the same ancestral stock but not in a direct line of descent compare lineal 3 a : of, relating to, or being collateral used as a security (as for payment of a debt) b : secured by collateral [a loan] col·lat·er·al·ly adj n 1 : a collateral relative 2 : property pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender in the event of the borrower's default ;specif under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code : property subject to a security interest ...
Saunkefin
Saunkefin, the determination of the lineal race; a descent of kindred, Brit. c. 119.End of Blood; the failure of a line of succession, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1344....
Escheat
Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is a fruit of seigniory, the Crown or lord of the fee, from whom or from whose ancestor the estate was originally derived, taking it as ultimus h'res upon the failure, natural or legal, of the intestate tenant's family.Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords has been abolished by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1). The right of the Crown to 'bona vacantia' now includes real property under (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 46. See BONA VACAN-TIA.The title of the Crown was ascertained by inquiry regulated by rules under the (English) Escheat Procedure Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 53), which repealed, as practically inoperative, the numerous statutes from 29 Edw. 1, by which officers called 'escheators' were authorized to hold such inquiries.If differed from a forfeiture [now abolished for treason or felony by the (Engli...
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