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Pedigree
Pedigree [fr. per and degre, Fr.-Skinner], genealogy; lineage; account of descent.
Falsification
Falsification. 1. Pedigree.--For a vendor or mortgagor or other person disposing of property
Panjis
maintained by Panjikars who are professional genealogists. They systematically maintain pedigree tales in the community of Naithal Brahmins. They go from
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Visitation books of Heralds
upon oath; they are allowed to be good evidence of pedigree, 3 Steph. Com. See Hubback on Succession, p. 538.
Purchaser
traced from the purchaser; and to the intent that the pedigree may never be carried further back than the circumstances of
Lis mota
Declarations of deceased members of a family, in matters of pedigree, are inadmissible in evidence, if made after a controversy has
Hearsay evidence
the follow-ing: (1) dying declarations; (2) hearsay in questions of pedigree; (3) hearsay on questions of public right, customs, boundaries, etc.;
Gradus parentel'
Gradus parentel', a pedigree; a table of relation-ship
Genealogy
succession of families; enumeration of descent in order of succession; pedigree.
Fleet-books
made under public authority. But perhaps on a question of pedigree, they ae evidence to show the name by which a
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