Kindred
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
relations by blood. Nature has divided kindred of every one into three principal classes.
1.
His children and their descendants; 2, his father, mother and other ascendants; 3, his collateral relations, which include, in the first place, his brothers and sisters and their descendants; and, secondly, his uncles, cousins and other relations of either sex, who have not descended from a brother or sister of the deceased. All kindred then are descendants, ascendants or collaterals. A husband or wife of the deceased, therefore, is not his or her kindred.
14 Ves. 372; vide Wood’s Inst. 50; Ayl. Parerg. 325; Dane’s Ab. h.t.; Toll. Ex. 382, 3; 2 Chit. Bl. Com. 516, n. 59.