Sisters

Sisters. Lord Coke says, omnes sorores sunt quasi unus h'res-all sisters are, as it were, one heir. See COPARCENERS....

Sisterly

Like a sister becoming a sister affectionate as sisterly kindness sisterly remorse...

Half-brother, half-sister, a brother or sister by the father's or mother's side only. Marriage with a half-sister of a deceased wife or half-brother of a deceased husband has been legalized; see Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Acts, 1907-1931...

Deceased wife's sister or deceased brother's widow

Deceased wife's sister or deceased brother's widow. See MARRIAGE (prohibited degrees)....

Sister

A female who has the same parents with another person or who has one of them only In the latter case she is more definitely called a half sister The correlative of brother...

Half sister

A sister by one parent only...

Sister in law

The sister of ones husband or wife also the wife of ones brother sometimes the wife of ones husbands or wifes brother...

Salic, or Salique

Salic, or Salique [lex salica, Lat.], an ancient and fundamental law of the kingdom of France, usually supposed to have been made by Pharamond, or at least by Clovis, in virtue of which males only are to reign.It is a popular error to suppose that the Salic law was established purely on account of the succession of the Crown, since it extended to private persons as much as to the royal family.The Salic law had not in view a preference of one sex to the other, much less had it a regard to the perpetuity of a family, a name, or the succession of land. It was purely a law of economy which gave the house, and the land dependent on the house, to the males who should dwell in it, and to whom it consequently was of more service.In proof of this, the title of allodial lands of the Salic law may be thus stated:-(1) If a man die without issue, his father or mother shall succeed him.(2) If he have neither father nor mother, his brother or sister.(3) If he have neither brother nor sister, the sist...

Family

Family, in relation to a person, includes the ascend-ant and descendant of such person. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976), s. 2(h)]. A group consisting of parents and their children; a group of person connected by blood by affinity, or by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 620.In relation to an occupier, means the individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such individual, and their children, brother or sister of such individual. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (v)]In relation to an operator, means his wife and dependant children and includes his dependent parents. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (g)]Means:(i) In the case of a male-subscriber the wife or wives, parents, children, minor brothers, unmarried sisters, deceased son's widow and children and where no parent of the subscriber is alive, a paternal grandparent: Provided that if a subscriber proves that his wife has be...

Coparceners or parceners

Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act of law only, i.e., by descent, which, in relation to this subject was of two kinds:-(1) Descent by the common law, which took place where an ancestor died intestate, leaving two or more females as his co-heiresses; these, according to the canon of real property inheritance, all took together as coparceners or parceners, the law of primogeniture not obtaining among women in equal relationship to their ancestor: they were, however, deemed to be one heir; and (2) descent by particular custom, as in the case of gavelkind lands, which descended to all the males in equal degree, as the sons, brothers, or uncles of the deceased intestate ancestor; in default of sons, they descended to all the daughters equally.Coparceners had a unity though not an entirety, or necessarily an equality, of int...

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