V.I.N.C.E. Glossary

Collateral consan­guinity is the relationship between people who spring from a common ancestor, but are not in a direct line. The degree is established by counting the generation from one relative up to the com­mon ancestor to the other relative. In such com­putation the first relative is excluded, the other included, and the ancestor counted only once. Thus brothers are related in the second degree, uncle and nephew in the third de­gree, and so on.

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