lineal+descendants

  • 31bodily heirs — Heirs begotten or borne by the person referred to; lineal descendants. Progeny or issue, including children, grandchildren, and other lineal descendants. See heir of the body …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 32issue — 1. verb To send forth; to emit; to promulgate; as, an officer issues orders, process issues from a court. To put into circulation; as, the treasury issues notes. To send out, to send out officially; to deliver, for use, or authoritatively; to go… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 33bodily heirs — Heirs begotten or borne by the person referred to; lineal descendants. Progeny or issue, including children, grandchildren, and other lineal descendants. See heir of the body …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 34issue — 1. verb To send forth; to emit; to promulgate; as, an officer issues orders, process issues from a court. To put into circulation; as, the treasury issues notes. To send out, to send out officially; to deliver, for use, or authoritatively; to go… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 35adopted child — One having by virtue of an adoption proceeding in conformity with the statutes the legal incidents of the natural relation of parent and child. 2 Am J2d Adopt § 88. Sometimes, but not always, considered a lawful heir or legal heir. 2 Am J2d Adopt …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 36ancestral estate — An estate the title to which has been acquired by descent, and which, under the common law rule, at least the common law rule in England, should be kept in the line of the ancestor by whom it was brought into the family, so that descent of the… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 37SUCCESSION — SUCCESSION, devolution of the deceased person s property on his legal heirs. Order of Succession The Pentateuchal source of the order of succession is If a man die and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 38Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria — The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria [ [http://www.gratonrancheria.com/index.htm Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria ] ] , formerly the Federated Coast Miwok, was officially recognized by the U.S. government on December 27, 2000, pursuant… …

    Wikipedia

  • 39Chinese nobility — Chinese sovereignty and peerage,[1] the nobility of China, were an important feature of traditional social and political organization of Imperial China. While the concepts of hereditary sovereign and peerage titles and noble families were… …

    Wikipedia

  • 40fee — n [Middle English, fief, from Old French fé fief, ultimately from a Germanic word akin to Old High German fehu cattle] 1: an inheritable freehold estate in real property; esp: fee simple compare leasehold; life estate at estate …

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