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/ˌparənˈtiːlə/ · noun
(law) An ancestor and all of his or her descendants; all descendants of a person's ancestors of a certain degree..
The maternal heirs of decedent derive their relationship from decedent's grandparents, and thus fall in the grandparent parentela.
Every person who is in my father’s parentela is nearer to me than any person who can only claim kinship through some ancestor remoter from me than my father.
Most states use a parentelic system, under which the intestate estate passes to grandparents and their descendants, and if none to great-grandparents and their descendants, and if none to great-great-grandparents and their descendants, and so on down each line (parentela) descended from an ancestor until an heir is found.
Use parentela when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Parentela means (law) An ancestor and all of his or her descendants; all descendants of a person's ancestors of a certain degree..
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The maternal heirs of decedent derive their relationship from decedent's grandparents, and thus fall in the grandparent parentela.
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