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COUSIN

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Kindred in the fourth degree, being the issue (male or female) of the brother or sister of one’s father or mother. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father of the person spoken of are called “paternal cousins;” “maternal cousins” are those who are descended from the brothers or sisters of the mother. Cousins-german are first cousins. Sanderson v. Bayley, 4 Myl. & C. 59. In English writs, commissions, and other formal instruments issued by the crown, the word signifies any peer of the degree of an earl. The appellation is as aneient as the reign of Henry IV., who, being related or allied to every earl then in the kingdom, acknowledged that connecK Done in all his letters and public acts; from which the use has descended to his successors, though the reason has long ago failed. Mozley

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  • SISTER A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of…
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  • ASCENDANTS Persons with whom one is related in the ascending line; one's parents, grandparents, great grandparents,…

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