Collateral (kinship)

Collateral is a term used in kinship to describe kin, or lines of kin, that are not in a direct line of descent from an individual.^[1] Examples of collateral relatives include siblings of parents or grandparents and their descendants (uncles, aunts, and cousins).^[2] Collateral descent is contrasted with lineal descent: those related directly by a line of descent such as the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of an individual. Though both forms are consanguineal (blood relations), collaterals are neither ancestors nor descendants of a given person.^[3] In legal terminology, 'Collateral descendant' refers to relatives descended from a sibling of an ancestor, and thus a niece, nephew, or cousin.^[4]

^ "72-11-102. Types of kinship – lineal and collateral".
^ Michael Rhum. (1997), 'collaterals' in T. Barfields (ed.), The Dictionary of Anthropology, Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, p.69
^ Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer. (2002), 'collateral', Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, London: Routledge, p.598
^ "Collateral descendant". law.com Law Dictionary. Retrieved 5 February 2012.

[1] "72-11-102. Types of kinship – lineal and collateral".

[2] Michael Rhum. (1997), 'collaterals' in T. Barfields (ed.), The Dictionary of Anthropology, Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, p.69

[3] Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer. (2002), 'collateral', Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, London: Routledge, p.598

[4] "Collateral descendant". law.com Law Dictionary. Retrieved 5 February 2012.

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