Social:Issue (genealogy)
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Short description: In genealogy and wills, one's lineal descendants
In genealogy and wills, a person's issue are all their lineal descendants.
Lineal descendants
Issue typically means a person's lineal descendants—all genetic descendants of a person, regardless of degree.[1] Issue is a narrower category than heirs, which includes spouses, and collaterals (siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles).[2] This meaning of issue arises most often in wills and trusts.[3] A person who has no living lineal descendants is said to have died without issue.
A child or children are first-generation descendants and are a subset of issue.[4]
See also
- Legitimacy (family law)
- Primogeniture
- Royal bastard
- Royal descent
References
- ↑ Glenda K. Harnad, J. D. and Karl Oakes, J. D., Corpus Juris Secundum, Descent and Distribution § 35 (2015)
- ↑ HEIR, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014).
- ↑ For example, In re Auclair's Estate, 75 Cal. App. 2d 189, 170 P.2d 29 (1st Dist. 1945); Brawford v. Wolfe, 103 Mo. 391, 15 S.W. 426 (1891)
- ↑ "Issue and children in wills" (in en). BHS Legal. 17 March 2022. https://willshub.com.au/issue/.
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