consanguinea

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noun

blood relative

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounconsanguinea (plural consanguineas)

plural consanguineas

  1. blood relative

    The media jurisprudentia, i.e. the opinions of the jurisprudents, excluded altogether females descended through males except sisters so descended (consanguinea;).

    1900, The Institutes of Justinian, page 554
    2 more examples

    Indenture between Henry de Grymshagh, son and heir of Adam de Grymshagh and Cecilia, daughter and one of the heirs of Henry de Clayton on the moors (1), and Henry de Rissheton and Margaret his wife and cousin (consanguinea), the other heir of Henry de Clayton (2), who agree to share the lands in Clayton and Huncotes thus.

    1921, Remains, Historical & Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, page 80

    If, in an action brought against a man and wife, it be pleaded that the consanguinea is in fact the wife named in the writ, the demandant will not be allowed to aver that the consanguinea is dead, but must say that the tenant is a different person, and assign a diversity of father and mother.

    2012, Luke Owen Pike, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third, →ISBN, page 320
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