sister
Defined in 5 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)
United States Code
5 U.S.C. § 8101 — in this section
“brother” and “sister” mean one who at the time of the death of the employee is under 18 years of age or over that age and incapable of self-support, and include stepbrothers and stepsisters, half brothers and half sisters, and brothers and sisters by adoption, but do not include married brothers or married sisters;
26 U.S.C. § 152 — for purposes of this section (2 versions over time)
The terms “brother” and “sister” include a brother or sister by the half blood.
50 U.S.C. § 456 — under this title
As used in this subsection, the term “brother” or “sister” means a brother of the whole blood or a sister of the whole blood, as the case may be.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A female person considered in
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
DECEASED WIFE’S. Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister was formerly within the prohibited degrees and void in England, under the act of 1835. By the act of 1907, the prohibition was removed; but clergymen are relieved from the duty of celebrating such marriages. SIT 10. A measure used in Mexican land grants, equivalent to 4338.464 acres. A sitio de ganado mcnor or sheep ranch is equivalent to 1928.133 acres. Ainsa v. U. S., 161 U. S. 219, 16 Sup. Ct. 544, 40 L. Ed. 673.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Consanguinity. Where a testator's property would be diverted from his lipeal descendants to strangers by construing " sister " to mean half-sister, the burden of proving that that was his intention rests upon the contestant. 2