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Kin or Kindred
or Kindred [fr. cynren, Sax.], relation by blood. There are two degrees of kindred: the one in the lineal or direct line ascending or descending, and the other in the collateral or indirect line. The right of
In the son or daughter of such a female
the scheme and purpose of sub-s. (2) which essentially is to vest the right of pre-emption in the lineal descendants of the last male holder. It would follow that under cl. (b) the right of pre-emption would
Garter
Edward III. About 1348, has since June 28, 1831, consisted of the Sovereign and twenty-five Knight Companions, such lineal descendants of King George I. as may have been elected, and of Sovereigns and extra Knights who have
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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
Distribution, Statute of
and the residue in equal proportions to his children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if there be no children or legal representative subsisting ,then a moiety shall go to the widow,
Conditional fee
some particular heirs, exclusive of others, as to the heirs of a man's body, by which only his lineal descendants were admitted, in exclusion of collateral; see BASE FEE. A qualified fee confers a limited power of
Collateral
above the deed itself; collateral consanguinity or kindred, which descend from the same stock or ancestor as the lineal relation, but do not descend one from the other, as the issue of two sons; collateral issue, where
fee simple
and to that individual's descendants which is subject to a reversion or remainder if the grantee has no lineal descendants but which becomes a fee simple absolute and freely alienable upon the birth of a direct descendant
Nephew
A grandson or grandchild or remoter lineal descendant
Linear
Of or pertaining to a line consisting of lines in a straight direction lineal
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