Legal Definition and Related Resources of Kin

Relatives. Primarily, relatives by the tie of consanguinity or blood. But including for the purposes of a statute respecting competency to testify as to aIncluding transaction with one since deceased, otherwise known as a dead man’s statute, relatives by marriage as well as by blood. See collateral kinsmen; kindred; nearest blood kin, nearest kin, next of kin.

Rslation or relationship by blood or consanguinity. The nearness of kin is computed according to the civil law. 2 Kent, Comm. 413.

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This term is a noun.

Etimology of Kin

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c. 1200, from Old English cynn “family; race; kind, sort, rank; nature” (also “gender, sex,” a sense obsolete since Middle English), from Proto-Germanic *kunjam “family” (source also of Old Frisian kenn, Old Saxon kunni “kin, kind, race, tribe,” Old Norse kyn, Old High German chunni “kin, race;” Danish kjön, Swedish kön, Middle Dutch, Dutch kunne “sex, gender;” Gothic kuni “family, race,” Old Norse kundr “son,” German Kind “child”), from PIE root *gene- “give birth, beget,” with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups. In the Teutonic word, as in Latin genus and Greek [genos], three main senses appear, (1) race or stock, (2) class or kind, (3) gender or sex …. [OED] Related to both words kind and to child. From 1590s as an adjective, from the noun and as a shortening of akin. Legal next of kin (1540s) does not include the widow, “she being specifically provided for by the law as widow” [Century Dictionary], and must be a blood relation of the deceased.

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Bengtson, V. L.; Rosenthal, C. J.; and Burton, L. “Families and Aging: Diversity and Heterogeneity.” In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 3d ed. Edited by Robert H. Binstock and Linda K. George. San Diego: Academic Press, 1990. Pages 263-287.

Campbell, L. D.; Connidis, I. A.; and Davies, L. “Sibling Ties in Later Life: A Social Network Analysis.” Journal of Family Issues 20 (1999): 114-148.

Cooney, T. M., and Smith, L. A. “Young Adults’ Relations with Grandparents Following Recent Parental Divorce.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 51B (1996): S91-S95.

Fullmer, E. M. “Challenging Biases Against Families of Older Gays and Lesbians.” In Strengthening Aging Families: Diversity in Practice and Policy. Edited by G. S. Smith, S. S. Tobin, E. A. Robertson-Tchabo, and P. W. Power. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1995. Pages 99-119.

Gelfand, D. E. Aging and Ethnicity: Knowledge and Services. New York: Springer, 1994.

Himes, C. L.; Hogan, D. P.; and Eggebeen, D. J. “Living Arrangements of Minority Elders.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 51B (1996): S42-S48.

Kornhaber, A. Contemporary Grandparenting. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996.

Rosenthal, C. J. “Kinkeeping in the Familial Division of Labor.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 48 (1985): 965-974.

Rosenthal, C. J., and Marshall, V. W. “Generational Transmission of Family Ritual.” American Behavioral Scientist 31 (1988): 669-684.

Rubinstein, R. “Never Married as Social Type: Re-evaluating Some Images.” The Gerontologist 27 (1987): 108-113.

Silverstein, M., and Waite, L. J. “Are Blacks More Likely than Whites to Receive and Provide Social Support in Middle and Old Age? Yes, No, and Maybe So.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 48 (1993): S212-S222.

Uhlenberg, P. “Demographic Change and Kin Relationships in Later Life.” In Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 13: Focus on Kinship, Aging, and Social Change. Edited by George L. Maddox and M. Powell Lawton. New York: Springer, 1993. Pages 219-238.

Uhlenberg, P.; Cooney, T.; and Boyd, R. “Divorce for Women after Midlife.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 45 (1990): S3-S11.

Concept of Kin in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Kin: Those related by blood.

Concept of Kin in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Kin: Those related by blood.