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Lineal descent
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Lineal descendant
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Inheritance
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
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Lineal
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collateral
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
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,
Escheat
from whom the estate descended, or where the intestate tenant, having been a bastard, did not leave any lineal descendants, since he cannot have any collateral descendants. By the (English) Intestates Estate Act, 1884 (47 & 48 … its prerogative; while an escheat results from tenure only, and arises from an obstruction in the course of descent; it originates in feudalism, and respects the intestate's succession. So, while forfeiture affects the rents and profits only,
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