The Indian Succession Act

Application of Part

Kindred or consanguinity

Lineal consanguinity

Collateral consanguinity

Persons held for purpose of succession to be similarly related to deceased

Mode of computing of degrees of kindred


OF CONSANGUINITY


(1) Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons, one
of whom is descended in a direct line from the other, as between a man and his father, grandfather and
great-grandfather, and so upwards in the direct ascending line; or between a man and his son, grandson,
great-grandson and so downwards in the direct descending line.

(2) Every generation constitutes a degree, either ascending or descending.

(3) A person's father is related to him in the first degree, and so likewise is his son; his grandfather
and grandson in the second degree; his great-grandfather and great-grandson in the third degree, and so
on.

LAWGIST

# 25 Lineal consanguinity