lineal

/liniyal/ That which comes in a line; especially a direct line, as from father to son. Collateral relationship is not called "lineal," though the expression "collateral line," is not unusual. Proceeding in direct or unbroken line, hereditary, unbroken in course; distinguished from collateral, as lineal descent, lineal succession, having an ancestral basis or right.

See also descent

@ lineal consanguinity

/liniyal konsaerjgwinatiy/ That kind of consanguinity which subsists between persons of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other; as between a particular person and his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so upward, in the direct ascending line; or between the same person and his son, grandson, great-grandson, and so downwards in the direct descending line.

See descent

@ lineal descendent

A person in the direct line of descent such as a child or grandchild as contrasted with a collateral descendent such as a niece

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- lineal descent (See descent)

@ lineal heir

/liniysl e(ya)r/ One who inherits in a line either ascending or descending from a common source as distinguished from a collateral heir. Ferraro v. Augustine, 45 Ill.App.2d 295, 196 N.E.2d 16, 19.

The words "lineal heirs" like "heirs of the body" mean all lineal descendants to the remotest posterity and are words of "inheritance" and not of "purchase", unless the instrument clearly shows that they were used in a restricted sense to denote "children". Sims v. Clayton, 193 S.C. 98, 7 S.E.2d 724, 727.

See also heirs

@ lineals

Blood relatives of decedent

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