Descendant definition:
Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants.
Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person’s descendants.
Lineal Descendant
(n) Lineal descendants are the direct line of relationship flowing downwards from an individual starting with his children, grand children and their children and so on .
Collateral Descendant A relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor -- for example, a cousin, niece, nephew, aunt, or uncle.
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Descendant: A child, grandchild, great-grandchild, and so forth, down through the generations.
Descent: Inheritance from one's parents, grandparents, etcetera.
DESCENDANTS. Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree. Ambl. 327 2 Bro. C. C. 30; Id. 230 3 Bro. C. C. 367; 1 Rop. Leg. 115; 2 Bouv. n. 1956.
Lineal descendant
A person who is a direct descendant such as a child to his or her natural parent.
Liquidation
The selling of all the assets of a debtor and the use of the cash proceeds of the sale to pay off creditors.
lineal descendant
n. a person who is in direct line to an ancestor, such as child, grandchild, great-grandchild and on forever.
Descendant
Definition - Noun
: a blood relative of a later generation
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A descendant that is not direct, such as a niece or a cousin.
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Legacies To Descendants.
A legacy to the descendants of A, will comprehend all his children, grandchildren, etc.; and if the will direct the bequest to be divided equally among them, they are entitled to the fund per capita.
Legacies To A Family.
Collateral Descendant:
A descendant that is not direct, such as a niece or a cousin.
Memorials by descendants
Rebecca Nurse's descendants erected an obelisk-shaped granite memorial in her memory in 1885 on the grounds of the Nurse Homestead in Danvers, with an inscription from Whittier.
Lineal descendant: Direct descendant (for example, the child of his natural parent).
Limitation of actions: The Statute of Limitations sets down times within which proceedings must be brought.
TOP Fee tail : A form of tenure under the feudal system that could only be transferred to a lineal descendant. If there were no lineal descendants upon the death of the tenant, the land reverted back to the lord.
Stirpes Latin: the offspring of a person; his or her descendants. For example, inheriting per stirpes means having a right to a deceased's estate because you happen to be a descendant of the deceased.
Lineal descendants take the place of their ancestor. Thus an eldest son dying and leaving issue would be represented by such issue, who would exclude their father's brothers and sisters. 5.
Want or non-existence of descendants; more particularly, lack of issue who may take an estate limited over by an executory devise. Failure of justice. Defeat of right and justice from want of legal remedy. Failure of record.
in law, restriction of inheritance to a limited class of descendants for at least several generations.
Per Stirpes This term is most commonly used in wills and trusts to identify how property should be distributed among children and their lineal descendants.
*pater familias - the "head of the household," holding the patria potestas over all descendants, male and female, through the male line (i.e., the agnatic family). He also had power over those in bondage through mancipatio (i.e.
consanguinity, lineal Lineal consanguinity, or the direct line of consanguinity, is the relationship between persons, one of which is a descendant of the other.
HAEREDES PROXIMI
The children or descendants of the deceased. Dalr. Feud. Pr. 110; Spellm. Remains. ... more
HAEREDES REMOTIORES
The kinsmen other than children or descendants; Dalr. Feud. Pr. 110; Spellm. Remains. ... more ...
Service by publication is used to give "constructive notice" to a defendant who is intentionally absent, in hiding, unknown (as a possible descendant of a former landowner), ...
Language used to leave property to a person and his or her descendants, which typically take the form "to A, and the heirs of his body," where A is the person receiving the property.
CHILD : Any individual entitled to take, as a child under law, by intestate succession, from the parent whose relationship is involved, and excludes any person who is only a stepchild, foster child, grandchild, or any remote descendant.
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