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Descendant
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DescendantThose person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents. The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants.
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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
Grandchildren
Domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim.
Grandfather
Domestic relations. The father of one's father or mother. The father's father is called the paternal grandfather; the mother's father is the maternal grandfather.
Parents
The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of.
Collateral
Collateralis. From latus, a side; that which is sideways, and not direct.
Lineal
That which comes in a line. Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other. Lineal descent, is that which takes place among lineal kindred.
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Descanso Detention Facility
A detention center in California.
Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
Descender
In the descent; as formedon in the descender.
Descriptio personae
Description of the person. In wills, it frequently happens, that the word heir is used as a descriptio personae; it is then a sufficient designation of the person.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
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Derelicto
Civil law. Goods voluntarily abandoned by their owner; he must, however, leave them, not only sine spe revertendi, but also sine animzo revertendi.
Derivative
Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person.
Derivative citizenship
Citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizen parents, provided certain conditions are met.
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
Derogation
Civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it.
Descendant
Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
Descender
In the descent; as formedon in the descender.
Descriptio personae
Description of the person. In wills, it frequently happens, that the word heir is used as a descriptio personae; it is then a sufficient designation of the person.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
Deserter
One who abandons his post.
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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
Grandchildren
Domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim.
Grandfather
Domestic relations. The father of one's father or mother. The father's father is called the paternal grandfather; the mother's father is the maternal grandfather.
Parents
The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of.
Collateral
Collateralis. From latus, a side; that which is sideways, and not direct.
Lineal
That which comes in a line. Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other. Lineal descent, is that which takes place among lineal kindred.
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Descanso Detention Facility
A detention center in California.
Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
Descender
In the descent; as formedon in the descender.
Descriptio personae
Description of the person. In wills, it frequently happens, that the word heir is used as a descriptio personae; it is then a sufficient designation of the person.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
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Derelicto
Civil law. Goods voluntarily abandoned by their owner; he must, however, leave them, not only sine spe revertendi, but also sine animzo revertendi.
Derivative
Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person.
Derivative citizenship
Citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizen parents, provided certain conditions are met.
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
Derogation
Civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it.
Descendant
Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
Descender
In the descent; as formedon in the descender.
Descriptio personae
Description of the person. In wills, it frequently happens, that the word heir is used as a descriptio personae; it is then a sufficient designation of the person.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
Deserter
One who abandons his post.
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