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COLLATERAL RELATIVE [2 records]

Record 1 2012-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

A person's collaterals are his brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins. In other words, collaterals are any relatives that are not in a direct line of ascent or descent. (Rocchi, Guide to Wills and Estate Planning in Canada, 1978, p. 38)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

collatéral; parent collatéral; parent en ligne collatérale : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
CONT

Collateral relatives are those not directly related to an individual as ancestors or progeny. Thus, they are the individual's brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. The more closely they are related to the individual in question, the more valuable is the information they can supply for selection purposes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
DEF

Membres d'une même famille descendant d'un auteur commun.

Spanish

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