An offshoot lateral extension, or subdivision. A branch of a family stock is a group of persons, related among themselves by descent from a common ancestor, and related to the main stock by the fact that that common ancestor descends from the original founder or progenitor. Branch of the sea. This term, as used at common law, included rivers in which the tide! ebbed and flowed. … [Read more...]
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