KINDRE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  KINDRED. Relations by blood.
       2. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal 
  classes. 1. His children, and their descendants. 2. His father, mother, and 
  other ascendants. 3. His collateral relations; which include, in the first 
  place, his brothers and sisters, and their descendants and, secondly, his 
  uncles, cousins, and other relations of either sex, who have not descended 


  from a brother or sister of the deceased. All kindred then are descendants, 
  ascendants, or collaterals. A husband or wife of the deceased, therefore, is 
  not his or her kindred. 14 Ves. 372. Vide Wood's Inst. 50; Ayl. Parerg. 325; 
  Dane's Ab. h.t.; Toll. Ex. 382, 8; 2 Chit. Bl. Com. 16, n. 59 Poth. Des 
  Successions, c. 1, art. 3.