a lineal descendant

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• lineal descendant — index child Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 lineal descendant n. A person who …   Law dictionary

• lineal descendant — (Law) person who is a direct offspring, direct descendant (children and their children down through the generations, including grandchildren, great grandchildren and so forth) …   English contemporary dictionary

• lineal — lin·eal / li nē əl/ adj: consisting of or being in a direct male or female line of ancestry a lineal descendant compare collateral 2 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• descendant — de·scen·dant also de·scen·dent /di sen dənt/ n: a blood relative of a later generation Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. descendant …   Law dictionary

• Lineal — Lin e*al (l[i^]n [ e]*al), a. [L. linealis belonging to a line, fr. linea line: cf. F. lin[ e]al. See 3d {Line}.] 1. Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; opposed to {collateral}; as, a lineal descent… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Lineal measure — Lineal Lin e*al (l[i^]n [ e]*al), a. [L. linealis belonging to a line, fr. linea line: cf. F. lin[ e]al. See 3d {Line}.] 1. Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; opposed to {collateral}; as, a lineal… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Descendant — or Descendent may refer to: Lineal descendant, a blood relative in the direct line of descent Collateral descendant, a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor Descendant (astrology), the point directly opposite from the… …   Wikipedia

• descendant or descendent — Those persons who are in the blood stream of the ancestor. Term means those descended from another, persons who proceed from a body of another such as a child or grandchild, to the remotest degree; it is the opposite of ascendants . Bassett v.… …   Black's law dictionary

• descendant — or descendent Those persons who are in the blood stream of the ancestor. Term means those descended from another, persons who proceed from a body of another such as a child or grandchild, to the remotest degree; it is the opposite of ascendants …   Black's law dictionary

• descendant or descendent — Those persons who are in the blood stream of the ancestor. Term means those descended from another, persons who proceed from a body of another such as a child or grandchild, to the remotest degree; it is the opposite of ascendants . Bassett v.… …   Black's law dictionary

• descendant — or descendent Those persons who are in the blood stream of the ancestor. Term means those descended from another, persons who proceed from a body of another such as a child or grandchild, to the remotest degree; it is the opposite of ascendants …   Black's law dictionary