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Offspring

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The word offspring in its proper and natural sense extends to any degree of lineal descendants and has the same meaning as issue. 32 L. J. Ch. 373.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

This term is synonymous with "issue." See Barber v. Railroad Co., 166 U. S. 83, 17 Sup. Ct. 488, 41 L. Ed. 925 ; Allen v. Markle, 36 Pa. 117; Powell v. Brandon, 2 Cushm. (Miss.) 343.