Cos"in*age (k?s"'n-?j), n. [See Cousinage.] Law (a)

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

Burrill. (b)

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.

Blackstone.

 

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