COSINAGE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill.

2.
n.

A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone.


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