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OF DESCENT. 103
grand father, great grand father, and so upwards
in the direct ascending line; or between
an ascendant, and his son, grand son, great
grand son, and so downwards in the direct
descending line.
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Every generation in this lineal direct consanguinity,
constitutes a different degree, reckoning
either upwards, or downwards. The father
is related to his son in the first degree, and
so is the son related to the father; the grand
father and grand son reciprocally, in the second
degree--great grand father and great grand
son, in the third degree, and so on.
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This natural way of reckoning the degrees in
the direct line, obtains as well in the civil, and
in the canon, as in the common law.
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Collateral kindred answers in the same manner,
and agrees with the lineal in this, that
they descend from the same stock, or ancestor;
but differing, in that they do not descend from
each other. The collateral are therefore such,
as lineally sprung from one, and the same ancestor,
who is the root, or stock, whence these
relations are branched out. Vide Blackstone at
large, title descent.
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Collaterals,
who are such? |
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