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cosinages

cosinages is the plural of cosinage.

Meaning of cosinage

Noun

cosinage (countable and uncountable, plural cosinages)

  1. Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
  2. (historical, obsolete) 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.
    • if the abatement happened upon the death of any collateral relation , other than those before-mentioned , the writ is called a writ of cosinage1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Questions about cosinages

What is cosinages the plural of?
Cosinages is the plural of cosinage.

Words near cosinages in the dictionary

  1. cosimplicial
  2. cosimulation
  3. cosimulations
  4. Cosin
  5. cosinage
  6. cosinages
  7. cosine
  8. cosine curve
  9. cosine curves
  10. cosine formula
  11. cosine law

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