Lineal Consanguinity

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

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, greatgrandfather, and so upward, in the direct ascending line; or between the same person and his son, grandson, great-grandson, and so downwards, in the direct descending line. 2 Bl. Comm. 203; 198 111. 317.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

That which subsists between persons, one of whom is descended in a right line from the other, as between the son, the father, and the grandfather, in the ascending line, and between the father, son and grandson, and so on downward, in the descending line. See 56 Am. Dec. 293, note.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

Defined under Lineal in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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, greatgrandfather, and so upward, in the direct aseending line; or bebween the same person and his son, grandson, great-grandson, and so downwards in the direct descending line. 2 Bl. Comm. 203.