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Book IV.

Family.

Chapter I.
General Provisions.

725.

Relatives comprise:—

  1. Relatives by blood up to the sixth degree inclusive;
  2. Husband and wife;
  3. Relatives by affinity up to the third degree inclusive.

726.

The degree of relationship is reckoned by the number of generations from one relative to the other.

The degree of relationship between collateral relatives is reckoned by counting the number of generations from one person or his or her wife or husband up to the common ancestor and then down to the other person.

727.

As between an adopted child and the adopter and

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