Meaning of cosinage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
   countable, uncountable
2. A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
   countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“if the abatement happened upon the death of any collateral relation , other than those before-mentioned , the writ is called a writ of cosinage”

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