Collateral Issue
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
SSS An issue taken upon matter asire from the intrinsic merits of the action, as upon a plea in abatement; or aside from the direct and regular order of the pleadings, as on a de- E murrer.
2 Archb. Pr. K. B. 1, 6, bk.
2, pts. ——— bz The Lerm “collateral” is also applied in England toan issue raised upon a plea ot diversity of person, pleaded bya criminal who has F nan been tried and convicted, in bar of execution, viz., that he is not the same person who was attainted, and the like.
4 Bl. Comm. 346. enn COLLATERAL KINSMEN.
Those G who descend from one and the same common ancestor, but not from one another,