Nephew
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The son of a brother or sister, Ambl. 514; 1 Jac. 207, whether such brother or sister be of the whole or only of the half-blood.
22 L. J. Gh. 625; 10 Hare, 63.
The Latin nepos, from which ''nephew" is derived, was used in the civil law for nephew, but more properly for grandson; and we accordingly find neveu, the original form of nephew, in the sense of grandson. Britton, c.
119.
NEPUOY (Old Scotch).
In Scotch law
A grandson. Skene de Verb. Sign. voc. "Eneya."