Kindred

Relations by blood. Nature has divided the 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 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, thereforejis not his or her kindred.

14 Ves. 372. See Wood. Inst. BO; Ayliflfe, Par. 325; Dane, Abr.; 2 BI. Conun. 616, note; Poth. des Success, c 1, art. 3.

It has been held to include an adopted ch Ud (4 S. W. 683), but not an illegitimate child (88 Me. 153).