Line

In Descents. The series of persons who have descended from a common ancestor, placed one under the other, in the order of their birth. It connects successively all the relations by blood to each other.

See "Consanguinity"; "Degree." f 6. Tritavus. Tritavia. f 5. Atavus, Atavia. ? 4.

Abavus, Ahavia.

Great-grandfa- ther, great- p3, Proavus Proa Tla. grandmother. Grandfather. Grandmother, r 2.

Avus, Avla. father. Mother, tl.

Pater. Mater. B ta Son. ? 1, FUlua. 5 1 Grandson. 92.

Nepos. Neptl. "gS Great-grandson.

63. Pronepos, Proneptls. il a4.

Jd. Adnepos, Abenpos, Adnepti. Abneptis. iS. THnepos, Trlneptls. The line is either direct or collateral. The direct line is composed of all the persons who are descended from each other. If, m the direct line, any one person is assumed as the propositus, in order to count f rom hiin upwards and downwards, the line will be divided into two parts, the ascending and descending lines. The ascending line is that which, counting from the propositus, ascends to his ancestors, to his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc. The descendmg Una is that which, counting from the same person, descends to his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. The preceding table is an example.. a direct line. It becomes collateral when placed alongside of another line below the common ancestor, in whom both lines unite. For example: Common O ancestor. Direct Collateral line. line. Eeo. These two lines are independent of each other; they have no connection, except by their union in the person of the common ancestor. This reunion is what forms the relation among the persons composing the two lines. A line is also paternal or maternal. In the examination of a person's ascending line, the line ascends first to his father, next to his paternal grandfather, his paternal greatgrandfather, etc., so on from father to father. This is called the paternal line. Another line will be found to ascend from the same person to his mother, his maternal grandmother, and so from mother to mother. This is the maternal line. These lines, however, do not take in all the ascendants; there are many others who must be imagined.

See 2 Bl. Comm. 200 bk. 2, c. 14; Poth. des Success, c. 1, art. 3, § 2; "Ascendants."

Boundary Lines. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boundary, Measures. A line is a lineal measure, containing the one-twelfth part of an inch, LINEA (Lat.) In civil and old English law. A line; a series of persons descending from a common stock {series personarum a eommuni stipite descendentium).

Heinec.

Elem. Jur. Civ. lib.

1, tit. 10, § 153.

It was ascendens as well as descendens.

Hale, Anal. § 18; Fleta, lib. 6, c. 1, § 11.

LINEA RECTA (Lat.) The perpendicular line; the direct line; the line of ascent, through father, grandfather, etc., and of descent, through son, grandson, etc. "Co. Litt. 10, 158; Bracton, fol.

67; Fleta, lib. 6, c. 1, § 11.

This is represented in a diagram by a vertical line. Persons springing from another immediately, or mediately through a third person, are said to be in the direct line (linea recta), and are called "ascendants" and "descendants."

Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 129.

LINEA RECTA EST INDEX SUI ET OB 'iqui; lex est linea recti. A right line is an index of itself and of an oblique; law is a line of right.

Co. Litt. 158.

LINEA RECTA SEMPER PRAEFERTUR transversali. The right line is always pre- LINEA TRANSVERSALIS (Lat.) A line crossing the perpendicular lines. Where two persons are descended from a third, they are called "collaterals," and are said to be related in the collateral line {linea transversa or obliqua).