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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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