Consanguinity
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[Lat. consanguinitas, from consanguineus, (q. v.); cognatio, from con, together, and natus, born.] Connexion of blood. Kindred or alliance in blood.
2 Bl. Com. 202.
Relation by blood, as affinity is relation by marriage.
1 Bl. Com. 434. Co. Litt. 157 a.
The connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor, (vinculum personarum ab eodem stipite descendentium.) 2 Bl. Com. 202. It is of two kinds; lineal and collateral. See Lineal consanguinity, Collateral consanguinity.