Lineal descendant

Short description: Blood relative in the direct line of descent

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Anthropology of kinship

Basic concepts

* Affinity
* Consanguinity
* Marriage
* Incest taboo
* Endogamy
* Exogamy
* Moiety
* Monogamy
* Polygyny
* Polygamy
* Concubinage
* Polyandry
* Bride price
* Bride service
* Dowry
* Parallel / cross cousins
* Cousin marriage
* Levirate
* Sororate
* Ghost marriage
* Joking relationship
* Family
* Lineage
* Clan
* Cohabitation
* Fictive / Milk / Nurture kinship

Descent

* Cognatic / Bilateral
* Matrilateral
* House society
* Avunculate

Linealities

* Ambilineality
* Unilineality
* Matrilineality
* Patrilineality

Household forms and residence

* Extended
* Matrifocal
* Matrilocal

Nuclear
* Patrilocal

Terminology

* Kinship terminology
* Classificatory terminologies

By group

* Iroquois
* Crow
* Omaha
* Inuit
* Hawaiian
* Sudanese
* Dravidian

Case studies

* Australian Aboriginal
* Burmese
* Chinese
* Philippine
* Polyandry in Tibet / in India

Feminist

* Chambri
* Mosuo

Sexuality

* Coming of Age in Samoa

Major theorists

* Diane Bell
* Tom Boellstorff
* Jack Goody
* Gilbert Herdt
* Don Kulick
* Roger Lancaster
* Louise Lamphere
* Eleanor Leacock
* Claude Lévi-Strauss
* Bronisław Malinowski
* Margaret Mead
* Henrietta Moore
* Lewis H. Morgan
* Stephen O. Murray
* Michelle Rosaldo
* David M. Schneider
* Marilyn Strathern

Related articles

* Alliance theory
* Matrilineal / matrilocal societies
* Feminist anthropology
* Sex and Repression in Savage Society

* Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship

Social anthropology
Cultural anthropology

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A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in a person's direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance by parent from grandparent and by child from parent, whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property by inheritance by sibling from sibling, and cousin from cousin.

Adopted children, for whom adoption statutes create the same rights of heirship as children of the body, come within the meaning of the term "lineal descendants," as used in a statute providing for the non-lapse of a devise where the devisee predeceases the testator but leaves lineal descendants.

Among some Native American tribes in the United States, tribal enrollment can be determined by lineal descent, as opposed to a minimum blood quantum.[1] Lineal descent means that anyone directly descended from original tribal enrollees could be eligible for tribal enrollment, regardless of how much native blood they have.

The antonym of descendant is antecedent.

## Contents

* 1 Collateral descendant
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Collateral descendant

Main article: Social:Collateral (kinship)

A collateral or indirect descendant is a term for a relative descended from a person's sibling or the sibling of an ancestor, and thus a niece, nephew, or younger cousin.[2]

## See also

* Family tree
* Genealogy
* Issue (genealogy)
* Primogeniture
* Trust (law)
* Will contest

## References

1. ↑ "Tribal citizenship in crisis." Indian Country Today. 18 Sept 2010 (retrieved 14 Oct 2010)
2. ↑ "Collateral descendant". law.com Law Dictionary. http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=230.

## External links

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Family

* History
* Household
* Nuclear family
* Extended family
* Conjugal family
* Immediate family
* Matrifocal family
* Stepfamily
* Dysfunctional family
* Polyfidelitous families

First-degree relatives|

* Parent
* father
* mother
* Child
* son
* daughter
* Sibling
* brother
* sister

Second-degree relatives|

* Grandparent
* Grandchild
* Aunt
* Uncle
* Niece and nephew

Third-degree relatives|

* Great-grandparent
* Great-grandchild
* Grandnephew and grandniece
* Great-Uncle
* Great-Aunt
* Cousin

Family-in-law|

* Spouse
* wife
* husband
* Parents-in-law
* Siblings-in-law
* Son-in-law
* Daughter-in-law

Stepfamily|

* Stepfather
* Stepmother
* Stepchild
* Stepsibling

Kinship terminology|

* Kinship
* Australian Aboriginal kinship
* Adoption
* Affinity
* Consanguinity
* Disownment
* Divorce
* Estrangement
* Fictive kinship
* Marriage
* Nurture kinship
* Hawaiian kinship
* Sudanese kinship
* Eskimo kinship
* Iroquois kinship
* Crow kinship
* Omaha kinship

Lineage|

* Bilateral descent
* Common ancestor
* Family name
* Family tree
* Genealogy
* Heirloom
* Heredity
* Inheritance
* Lineal descendant
* Matrilineality
* Patrilineality
* Pedigree chart
* Progenitor

Relationships|

* Agape (parental love)
* Eros (marital love)
* Filial piety
* Storge (familial love)

Holidays|

* Mother's Day
* U.S.
* Father's Day
* Father-Daughter Day
* Siblings Day
* National Grandparents Day
* Parents' Day
* Children's Day
* Family Day
* Canada
* American Family Day
* National Family Week
* UK

Related|

* Wedding anniversary
* Sociology of the family
* Museum of Motherhood
* Incest

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