Legal Definition and Related Resources of Line

In Descents. The series of persons who have descended from a common ancestor, placed one under the other, in the order of their birth. It connects successively all the relations by blood to each other. See “Consanguinity”; “Degree.”. The line is either direct or collateral. The direct line is composed of all the persons who are descended from each other. If, m the direct line, any one person is assumed as the propositus, in order to count f rom hiin upwards and downwards, the line will be divided into two parts, the ascending and descending lines. The ascending line is that which, counting from the propositus, ascends to his ancestors, to his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc. The descendmg Una is that which, counting from the same person, descends to his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.
The collateral line, considered by itsel and in relation to the common ancestor, a direct line. It becomes collateral when placed alongside of another line below the common ancestor, in whom both lines unite.
These two lines are independent of each other; they have no connection, except by their union in the person of the common ancestor. This reunion is what forms the relation among the persons composing the two lines. A line is also paternal or maternal. In the examination of a person’s ascending line, the line ascends first to his father, next to his paternal grandfather, his paternal greatgrandfather, etc., so on from father to father. This is called the paternal line. Another line will be found to ascend from the same person to his mother, his maternal grandmother, and so from mother to mother. This is the maternal line. These lines, however, do not take in all the ascendants; there are many others who must be imagined. See 2 Bl. Comm. 200 bk. 2, c. 14; Poth. des Success, c. 1, art. 3, § 2; Ascendants.” Boundary Lines. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boundary, Measures. A line is a lineal measure, containing the one-twelfth part of an inch,

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Etimology of Line

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a Middle English merger of Old English line “cable, rope; series, row, row of letters; rule, direction,” and Old French ligne “guideline, cord, string; lineage, descent” (12c.), both from Latin linea “linen thread, string, plumb-line,” also “a mark, bound, limit, goal; line of descent,” short for linea restis “linen cord,” and similar phrases, from femenine of lineus (adj.) “of linen,” from linum “linen” (see linen). The earliest sense in Middle English was “cord used by builders for taking measurements;” extended late 14c. to “a thread-like mark” (from sense “cord used by builders for making things level,” mid-14c.), also “track, course, direction.” Meaning “limit, boundary” (of a county, etc.) is from 1590s. The mathematical sense of “length without breadth” is from 1550s. From 1530s as “a crease of the face or palm of the hand.” From 1580s as “the equator.” Sense of “things or people arranged in a straight line” is from 1550s. Now considered American English, where British English uses queue; this term is also a noun., but the sense appears earliest in English writers. Sense of “chronologically continuous series of persons” (a line of kings, etc.) is from late 14c. Meaning “one’s occupation, branch of business” is from 1630s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) probably from misunderstood KJV translation of II Corinthians x.16, “And not to boast in another mans line of things made ready to our hand,” where line translates Greek kanon which probably meant “boundary, limit;” the phrase “in another man’s line” being parenthetical. Commercial meaning “class of goods in stock” is from 1930, so called from being goods received by the merchant on a line in the specific sense “order given to an agent” for particular goods (1834). Insurance underwriting sense is from 1899. Line of credit is from 1958. Meaning “series of public conveyances” (coaches, later ships) is from 1786; meaning “continuous part of a railroad” is from 1825. Meaning “telegraph wire between stations” is from 1847 (later “telephone wire”). Meaning “cord bearing hooks used in fishing” is from c. 1300. Meaning “policy or set of policies of a political faction” is 1892, American English, from notion of a procession of followers; this is the sense in the political party line, and, deteriorated, it is the slang line that means “glib and plausible talk meant to deceive.” In British army, the Line (1802) is the regular, numbered troops, as distinguished from guards, auxiliaries, militia, etc. In the Navy (1704) it refers to the battle line (the sense in ship of the line, which is attested from 1706). Dutch lijn, Old High German lina, German Leine, Old Norse lina “a cord, rope,” are likewise from Latin. Spanish and Italian have the word in the learned form linea. In continental measurements, a subdivision of an inch (one-tenth or one-twelfth in England), attested in English from 1660s but never common. Also see lines. To get a line on “acquire information about” is from 1903. To lay it on the line is from 1929 as “to pay money;” by 1954 as “speak plainly.” End of the line “as far as one can go” is from 1948. One’s line of work, meaning “pursuit, interest” is from 1957, earlier line of country (1861). Line-drawing is from 1891. A line-storm (1850) is a type supposed to happen in the 10 days or two weeks around the times the sun crosses the equator.

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