maternal line
A person’s ancestry or relationship with another traced through the mother.
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maternal line descent
Descent between two persons, traced through the mother of the younger.
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line
line, n. 1. A demarcation, border, or limit (the line between right and wrong). 2. A person’s occupation or business (what line of business is Watson in?). 3. In manufacturing, a series of closely related products. 4. The ancestry of a person; lineage (the Fergusons came from a long line of wheat farmers). collateral line.
new acquisition
An estate not originating from descent, devise, or gift from the parental or maternal line of the owner. • For example, an estate acquired from a nonrelative is a new acquisition. See nonancestral estate under ESTATE (1).
acquisition
acquisition, n. 1. The gaining of possession or control over something ( acquisition of the target company’s as-sets). 2. Something acquired (a valuable acquisition). creeping acquisition. The gradual purchase of a corporation’s stock at varying prices on the open market. • As a takeover method, a creeping acquisition does not involve a formal tender offer,
ex parte materna
ex parte materna (eks pahr-tee m[schwa]-t[schwa]r-n[schwa]). [Latin] On the mother’s side; of the maternal line.
parentelic method
parentelic method (par-[schwa]n-tee-lik or -tel-ik). A scheme of computation used to determine the paternal or maternal collaterals entitled to inherit when a childless intestate decedent is not survived by parents or their issue. • Under this method, the estate passes to grandparents and their issue; if there are none, to great-grandparents and their issue; and