collateral descent

This collateral descent, however, does not give any claim to the Earlship of Tyrone.

However, we also claimed collateral descent from one of the first private inquiry agents on record, back on Earth before spaceflight.

One of the men, August Frank,of Company E, had a collateral descent from George Washington, through his brother Augustine.

Those that went to Moala travelled considerably more and were led by lineal descendants of Roko Nadurucoko and therefore claimed collateral descent from Vueti.

Although collateral descent from the grantee does not confer a peerage, he assumed the style of Conde de Tyrone, but his descendants use the title Prince of Clandeboye.

In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance from grandfather to father, and father to son whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property by inheritance from brother to brother, and cousin to cousin.