relation

A relative or kinsman; a person connected by consanguinity. A person connected with another by blood or affinity. Liprie v. Michigan Millers Mut. Ins. Co., La.App., 143 So.2d 597, 600.

The words "relatives" and "relations," in their primary sense, are broad enough to include any one connected by blood or affinity, even to the remotest degree, but where used in wills, as defining and determining legal succession, are construed to include only those persons who are entitled to share in the estate as next of kin under the statute of distributions. The connection of two persons, or their situation with respect to each other, who are associated, whether by the law, by their own agreement, or by kinship, in some social status or union for the purposes of domestic life; as the relation of guardian and ward, husband and wife, master and servant, parent and child; so in the phrase "domestic relations." The doctrine of "relation" is that principle by which an act done at one time is considered by a fiction of law to have been done at some antecedent period. It is usually applied where several proceedings are essential to complete a particular transaction, such as a conveyance or deed. The last proceeding which consummates the conveyance is held for certain purposes to take effect by relation as of the day when the first proceeding was had. Knapp v. Alexander-Edgar Lumber Co., 237 U.S. 162, 35 S.Ct. 515, 517, 59 L.Ed. 894; U. S. v. Anderson, 194 U.S. 394, 24 S.Ct. 716, 48 L.Ed. 1035.

See also relation back.

A recital, account, narrative of facts; information given. Thus, suits by quo warranto are entitled "on the relation of a private person, who is called the "relator." But in this connection the word seems also to involve the idea of the suggestion, instigation, or instance of the relator.

See also blood relations

- kin or kindred

- next of kin

- relative