Degree
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
One of a series of steps upward or downward. Degree of relationship: a step In kinship, reckoning, in the canon law, from the person furthest from the common ancestor to the ancestor; in the civil law, from one person to the ancestor and down to the other. From any person to the one nearest in kinship is a degrea