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Garter

1831, consisted of the Sovereign and twenty-five Knight Companions, such lineal descendants of King George I. as may have been elected,

Escheat

intestate tenant, having been a bastard, did not leave any lineal descendants, since he cannot have any collateral descendants. By the

Distribution, Statute of

children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if there be no children or legal representative subsisting

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Conditional fee

the heirs of a man's body, by which only his lineal descendants were admitted, in exclusion of collateral; see BASE FEE.

Collateral

which descend from the same stock or ancestor as the lineal relation, but do not descend one from the other, as

posterity

posterity 1 : all of the lineal descendants of a person 2 : all future generations

Nephew

A grandson or grandchild or remoter lineal descendant

Millimeter

A lineal measure in the metric system containing the thousandth part of

Linear

to a line consisting of lines in a straight direction lineal

Grandfather

father an ancestor immediately after the father or mother in lineal ascent

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