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AFFINITY (See also:
LAT
Lat. affinitas, relationship by See also:
MARRIAGE
marriage, from offinis, bordering on, related to; finis, border, boundary) , in See also:

law, as distinguished from See also:

CONSANGUINITY, or KINDRED

consanguinity (q.v.), the See also:

TERM

term applied to. the relation which each party to a marriage, the See also:

HUSBAND

husband and wife, bears to the kindred of the other. Affinity is usually de-scribed as of three kinds. (I) See also:

DIRECT

Direct: that relationship which subsists between the husband and his wife's relations by See also:

BLOOD

blood or between the wife and the husband's relations by blood. The marriagehaving made them one See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, the blood relations of each are held as related by affinity in the same degree to the one spouseas by consanguinity to the other. But the relation is only with the married parties themselves; and does not bring those in affinity with them in affinity with each other; so a wife's See also:

SISTER

sister has no affinity to her husband's See also:

BROTHER

brother. This is (2) Secondary affinity. (3) See also:

COLLATERAL (from Med. Lat. collateralis,—cum, with, and latus, lateris, side,—side by side, hence parallel or additional)

Collateral affinity is the relationship subsisting between the husband and the relations of his wife's relations. The subject is chiefly important from the matrimonial prohibitions by which the See also:

CANON

canon law has restricted relations by affinity. Taking the table of degrees within which marriage is prohibited on See also:

account of consanguinity, the See also:

RULE

rule has been thus extended to affinity, so that wherever relationship to a See also:

man himself would be a See also:

bar to marriage, relationship to his deceased wife will be the same bar, and See also:

VICE

vice versa on the husband's decease. Briefly, direct affinity is a bar to marriage. This rule has been founded chiefly on interpretations of the eighteenth See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter of See also:

LEVITICUS

Leviticus. Formerly by law in See also:

England, marriages within the degrees of affinity were not absolutely null, but they were liable to be annulled by ecclesiastical See also:

PROCESS

process during the lives of both parties; in other words, the incapacity was only a canonical, not a See also:

CIVIL

civil, See also:

DISABILITY

disability.

By the Marriage See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1835 all marriages of this See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind not disputed before the passing of the act were declared absolutely valid, while all subsequent to it were declared null. This rendered null in England, and not merely voidable, a marriage with a deceased wife's sister or niece.

End of Article: AFFINITY (Lat. affinitas, relationship by marriage, from offinis, bordering on, related to; finis, border, boundary)

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