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lineal

lineal : consisting of or being in a direct male or female line of ancestry [a descendant] compare collateral

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Lineal

Descending in a direct line from an ancestor hereditary derived from ancestors opposed to collateral as a lineal descent or a lineal descendant

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Lineality

The quality of being lineal

Lineal descendant

Lineal descendant, Lineal descendant would mean the offspring of lawful marriage and not offspring of union which is not

Lineal consanguinity

Lineal consanguinity, that relationship which subsists between persons descended in a right line, as grandfather, father, son, grandson. (1)

Lineal warranty

Lineal warranty, where the heir derived, or might by possibility have derived, his title to the land warranted, either

Lineal descent

Lineal descent, the descent of an estate from ancestor to heir in a right line.

Millimeter

A lineal measure in the metric system containing the thousandth part of a meter equal to 03937 of an inch

Inheritance

in cases of ancestors dying before the 1st of January, 1834, are the following:- (1) That inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seized, in infinitum, but shall never lineally

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