Social:Collateral (kinship)
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Collateral is a term used in kinship to describe kin, or lines of kin, that are not in a direct line of descent from an individual.[1] Examples of collateral relatives include siblings of parents or grandparents and their descendants (uncles, aunts, and cousins).[2] Collateral descent is contrasted with lineal descent: those related directly by a line of descent such as the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of an individual. Though both forms are consanguineal (blood relations), collaterals are neither ancestors nor descendants of a given person.[3] In legal terminology, 'Collateral descendant' refers to relatives descended from a sibling of an ancestor, and thus a niece, nephew, or cousin.[4]
See also
- Lineal descent
- Bilateral descent
- Kinship
- Genealogy
- Rota system (collateral succession)
- Agnatic seniority
References
- ↑ "72-11-102. Types of kinship – lineal and collateral". https://leg.mt.gov/bills/1999/mca/72/11/72-11-102.htm.
- ↑ Michael Rhum. (1997), 'collaterals' in T. Barfields (ed.), The Dictionary of Anthropology, Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, p.69
- ↑ Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer. (2002), 'collateral', Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, London: Routledge, p.598
- ↑ "Collateral descendant". law.com Law Dictionary. http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=230.
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