Issue (genealogy)
In genealogy and wills, one's lineal descendants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In genealogy and wills, a person's issue means all their lineal descendants.
Issue typically means a person's lineal descendants—all genetic descendants of a person, regardless of degree.[1] Issue is a narrower category than heirs, which includes spouses, and collaterals (siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles).[2] This meaning of issue arises most often in wills and trusts.[3] A person who has no living lineal descendants is said to have died without issue.
A child or children are first-generation descendants and are a subset of issue.[4]
- Legitimacy (family law) – Legal status of a child born to parents who are legally married
- Lineal descendant – Blood relative in the direct line of descent
- Primogeniture – Inheritance by the eldest, usually male, child
- Royal bastard – Child of a reigning monarch born out of wedlock
- Royal descent – Genealogical kinship and descent
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