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In general terms, consanguinity is the blood relation that exists between two people.
The concept of consanguinity comes from the Latin consanguineus, which means with blood. IN a few words, it means “born from the same father”.
Alternatively, relatives who do not share blood relation (but rather have a legal relation), like, for example, a couple united by matrimony, their relation is called parentage by affinity.
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Consanguinity is the blood relation that exist among all the people that descend from a common ancestor.
Blood relations can be lineal or colateral.
Lineal consanguinity is established when an individual descends from another in a direct or semi direct way as is the case, for example, of fathers and sons. It is also considered lineal consanguinity in cases of grandfathers to grandsons.
Colateral consanguinity is when the relation between the persons who have a common ancestor, but are not per se descendent from one another, as is the case, for example, of cousins, brothers, sisters, uncles, etc.
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Both consanguinity as affinity terms which are both frequently used in Law. Family rights and successions depend a lot on parentage and consanguinity.
Another element to be considered is that the relation obtained by adoption or by consanguinity are treated as equal by most legal systems for, before the law, there is no differentiation between blood-related parentage or adoption. Both have the same rights.
One of the most legal uses of the concept of consanguinity is the right for inheritance.
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The terminological terms of parentage are groups of words used in cultures and specific languages to name the diverse relations existent among relatives.
These systems may vary completely from one society to another. In tandem, it is necessary to delineate that consanguinity have levels which determined by the number of generations. In other words, the relation between father-son is said to be of the first level (or kind), grandfather-grandson is of second level, or kind.
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