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Collateral is a term used inkinship 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 withlineal descent: those related directly by a line of descent such as the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of an individual. Though both forms areconsanguineal (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]
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