Rajkumari Amrit Kaur vs Maharani Deepinder Kaur And Others on 1 June, 2020
In Sunderlal
Chourasiya vs. Tejila Chourasiya and Ors.,2004 AIR MP 138
it was observed that the word descendants means those
persons who are in blood stream of the ancestor and further it
means those descended from another, persons who proceed
from a body of another such as child or grand child, to the
remotest degree. Descents are of two kinds, lineal and
collateral. Lineal descent is a descent in a direct or right line, as
from father or grand father to son or grand son. Collateral
descent is a descent in a collateral/oblique line i.e. upto the
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common ancestor and then down from him as from brother to
brother or between cousins.