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Grandfather

A fathers or mothers father an ancestor immediately after the father or mother in lineal ascent

Consanguinity

The relation of persons by blood in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage blood relationship as lineal consanguinity collateral consanguinity

posterity

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

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life in being

life in being :the life of a particular person (as a lineal descendant) in existence at the time of the creation of a deed or will or at the time

issue

proceeds from a source of revenue (as an estate) [rents, s, and profits] 2 : one or more lineal descendants [died without ] compare child, heir 3 a : a vital question or problem [cited a national

heir

a fee-tail estate called also heir of entail heir of the body : an heir who is a lineal descendant esp. as contrasted with a collateral descendant called also bodily heir heir presumptive pl: heirs presumptive :

fee

descendants, which is subject to a reversion or a remainder if a tenant in tail dies with no lineal descendants, and which is not freely alienable see also entail De Donis Conditionalibus in the Important Laws section

direct

[a claim] compare derivative b : being or passing in a straight line from parent to offspring : lineal [a ancestor] compare collateral 2 : marked by absence of any intervening agency, instrumentality, or influence [ consequences]

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,

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