Relative

A kinsman; a person connected with another by blood or affinity. A person or thing having relation or connection with seme other person or thing; as, relative rights, relative powers, mfra.

— Relative confession. See Confession.

— Relative fact. In the law of evidence. A fact having relation to another fact; a minor fact; a circumstance.

— Relative powers. Those which relate to land; so called to distinguish them from those which are collateral to it.

— Relative rights. Those rights of persons which are incident to them as members of society, and standing in various relations to each other. 1 Bl. Comm. 123. Those rights of persons in private life which arise from the civil and domestic relations. 2 Kent, Comm. 1. Relative words refer to the next antecedent, unless the sense be thereby impaired. Noy, Max. 4; Wing. Max. 19; Broom, Max. 606; Jenk. Cent 180.