Lineal
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In a direct line.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In a direct line. Lineal descent would be as from father or grandfather to son or grandson. Levy V. Mc Carlee, 6 Pet (U. S.) 112, 8 L. Ed. 334.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
That which comes in a line; especially a direct line, as from father to son. Collateral relationship is not called "lineal," though the expression "collateral line," is not unusual.
— Lineal consanguinity. That kind of consanguinity which subsists between persons of Whom one is descended in a direct line from the other; as between a particular person and his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so upward, in the direct ascending line; or between the same person and hls son, grandson, great-grandson, and so downwards in the direct descending line. 2 Bl. Comm. 203; Willis Coal & Min. Co., v. Grizzell, 198 111. 313, 65 N. E. 74.
— Lineal descent. See Descent.
— Lineal warranty. A warranty by an ancestor from whom the title did or might have come to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 301; Rawle, Co.v. 30.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In a direct line; from parent to child. Lineal consanguinity: that kind of consanguinity which subsists between persons, of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other. Lineal descent: the descent of one person from another in the right or direct line; the descent of an estate, or the right to it, in the direct line of persons. Lineal warranty: a warranty of land made by a person from or through whom the title was derived, or might by possibility have been derived by the heir.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
‘That which comes in a line; especially a direct line, as from father to son. Collateral relationship is not called “lineal,” though the expression “collateral line,” is net unusual.:
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Is used in the law of descent more narrowly than line; it implies direct course; immediate descent. Collateral relationship is not called lineal, though the expression collateral line is not unusual. Iiineal consanguinity. That relationship which subsists between persons each of whom is descended in a direct line from another, as between son, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so upwards in the direct ascending line, or downwards in the direct descending line. Lineal descent. Descent in a right Hue, as where an estate descends from ancestor to heir in one line of succession, through father and son, successively. Lineal 'warranty. A warranty where the heir derived, or might by possibility have derived, his title to the land warranted, either from or through the ancestor who made the warranty; as where a father, or an elder son in the life of the father, released to the disseisor of either themselves or the grandfather, with warranty, this was lineal to the younger son. It was abolished by Stat. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. ch. 74, § 14. Wharton.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
That which comes a line. Lineal consanguinity is one of whom is descended ina direct} When a defendant is arrested line from the other. Lineal descent,' pending a former suit or action, in is that which takes place among: which he was held to bail, he will lineal kindred. not, in general, be held to bail, if the