Inter Conjunctas Personas

Between conjunct persons

By the act 1621, c. 18, all conveyances or alienations between conjunct persons, unless granted for onerous causes, are declared, as in a question with creditors, to be null and of no avail. Conjunct persons are those standing in a certain degree of relationship to each other; such, for example, as brothers, sisters, sons, uncles, etc. These were formerly excluded as witnesses, on account of their relation-, ship; but this, as a ground of exclusion, has bcen abolished. Tray. Lat Max.