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
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.