Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A wife's brother or a sister's husband. There is not any relationship, but only affinity, between brothers-in-law. Farmers' I & T. Co. v. Iowa Water Co.. (C. C.) 80 Fed. 469. See State v. Foster, 112 La. 533, 36 South. 554.