Cosinage

COUSINAGE, or COSENAGE. A writ which lay where the father of the great-grandfather of the demandant had been disseised, and the heir brought his writ to recover nossession. Pitzh. Nat. Brev. 221. Relationship; affinity. St. 4 Hen. III. c. 8; 3 Bl. Comm. 186; Co. Litt. 160a.

cosenage. I fr.

In old English law. Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity; a writ that lay where a man's great-great-grandfather, or collateral relative, beyond certain degrees, was seised of lands, etc., in fee on the day of his death, and afterwards a stranger entered and abated, and so kept out the heir.

Cosenage, L. Fr. [L. Lat. consanguinitas,'] In o]d English law and practice. Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Co. Zi«. 160a. The name of a writ (bi'eve de consanguine Oy) that anciently lay where a man's great great grandfather, (or tresayle, as he was termed,) or collateral relative, beyond certain degrees, (to both of whom the title cosin was applied,) was seized of lands, <&c., in fee on the day of his death, and afterwards a stranger entered and abated, and so kept out the heir. F, N, -ff. 221. Reg. Grig. 226. Moscoe's Meal Act. 127. 8 £L Com. 186.