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  2. Hindustani kinship terms - Wikipedia

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    The kinship terms of Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) differ from the English system in certain respects. [1] In the Hindustani system, kin terms are based on gender, [2] and the difference between some terms is the degree of respect. [3] Moreover, "In Hindi and Urdu kinship terms there is clear distinction between the blood relations and affinal ...

  3. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor. Many jurisdictions have laws prohibiting people who are closely related by blood from marrying or having sexual relations with each other.

  4. Prohibited degree of kinship - Wikipedia

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    Article 968 and 970 of the Civil Code states that "the degree of relationship by blood between a person and his lineal relative by blood shall be determined by counting the number of generations upwards or downwards from himself [as the case may be], one generation being taken as one degree. As between the person and his collateral relative ...

  5. Vani (custom) - Wikipedia

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    Vani (Urdu: ونی), or Swara (سوارہ), is a custom where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation to end disputes, often murder. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Vani is a form of arranged or forced child marriage , [ 3 ] and the result of punishment decided by a council of tribal elders named jirga .

  6. Niece and nephew - Wikipedia

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    The term nepotism, meaning familial loyalty, is derived from this Latin term. [3] Niece entered Middle English from the Old French word nece , which also derives from Latin nepotem . [ 4 ] The word nibling , derived from sibling , is a neologism suggested by Samuel Martin in 1951 as a cover term for "nephew or niece"; it is not common outside ...

  7. Lineal descendant - Wikipedia

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    A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person.In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance by parent from grandparent and by child from parent, whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property ...

  8. Same-surname marriage - Wikipedia

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    Currently, Taiwanese law does not prohibit marriage base on shared surname, instead only prohibiting people who are related by blood within the sixth degree of relationship (second cousins). According to statistics from the Ministry of the Interior , as of 2014 there are 174,350 same-surname couples in Taiwan, including one couple with the same ...

  9. Immediate family - Wikipedia

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    The definition was to be expanded from "a remaining spouse, sexual cohabitant, partner, step-parent or step-child, parent-in-law or child-in-law, or an individual related by blood whose close association is an equivalent of a family relationship who was accepted by the deceased as a child of his/her family" to include "any person who had ...