Collateral

[L. Lat. collateralis, from con^ together, and lateralis, on the side,] Connected by, or on the side.* That whicn comes in, or adheres to the side of any thing. Termes de la ley, Haredes a latere venientes; heirs coming in, or from the 9ide, collateral heirs. Bract, fol.

20 b.

Answering to the in nlayiov xai Ai^yre? in the Greek of the civil law.

Nov. 118, c. 3.

That which is beside another thing; additional. See infra. COLLATERAL CONSANGUINITY or KINDRED. [Lat. cognatio a latere.'] That kind of consanguinity, kindred or relationship which exists between persons who are descended from one and the same stock or ancestor, whether near or remote; as between two brothers descended from the same father, or between two cousins descended from the same grandfather.

2 Bl. Com. 204, 205.

It is thus distinguished from Uneal consanguinity, in which the relatives are descended the one from the other.

Id. 204.

See Lineal consanguinity. Lineal consanguinity being usually represented by a perpendicular or right line, (linea recta,) in which the kindred are ranked relatively, one above or below the other, as father, son, grandson, collateral consanguinity is properly denoted by one or more transverse lines, crossing this, or proceeding obliquely from it on the side (a latere) upon which the kindred are ranked in their order.

See Dig. 38. 10. 9, 10.