单词 | parentelic |
释义 | parentelicadj. Of or relating to kinship or relation based on common ancestry; (Law) designating a system for determining next of kin and their shares of an estate. parentelic scheme n. Law a system of succession under which heirs are sought among surviving members, first of the deceased's parentela, then of the deceased's parents' parentela, then of the grandparents, and so on. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > based on common ancestry parentelic1881 1881 F. W. Maitland Coll. Papers (1911) I. 223 The mode of computing the degrees of relationship seems to be ‘parentelic’, that is to say, my father and all his issue constitute a class or parentela. 1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law II. 294 In a parentelic scheme my great-nephew, since he springs from my father, is nearer to me than my first cousin. 1957 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. Jan. 40 A full discussion of this law and of the parentelic system that it employs is out of place here. 1986 A. W. B. Simpson Hist. Land Law 62 [The] hunt for collaterals under the English scheme of inheritance was carried out..according to what is called the parentelic scheme. 2001 Lawyers Weekly (Nexis) 9 Feb. It also recommends replacing degrees of consanguinity with the parentelic system for determination of next of kin and their shares. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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