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Levitical Degrees

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Those degrees of kindred, set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus, within which persons are prohibited to marry.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The degrees of relationship barring marriage as stated in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Those degrees of kindred set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus, within which persons are prohibited to inarry. 1 Bish. Mar. Div. & 8ep. 737.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Degrees of kindred within which persons are by

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Those degrees of kindred set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus, within which marriage is forbidden by the English and American law.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Those degrees of kindred enumerated by the 18, and adopted by English and American law generally, as being so near that persons within them must not intermarry.