youngest specifically, but to each and all, who are older or younger 

 than the person speaking. 



V. — All the children of several brothers are brothers and 

 sisters to each other, and all the children of several sisters are 

 brothers and sisters to each other, and they use, in each case, the 

 respective terms for elder and younger brother, and for elder and 

 younger sister, the same as in the case of own brothers and sisters. 

 Whilst all the children of brothers on the one hand, and of sisters 

 on the other, are cousins to each other, as with us. To this last 

 rule their are exceptions. When you cross from one sex to the 

 other, the degree of relationship is farther removed. 



VI. — All the sons of a man's brotliers as before stated, are his 

 sons; so all the grand-sons of a man's brothers are his grand-sons. 

 The sons of a man's sisters are his nephews, but the grand-sons 

 of a man's sisters are his grand-sons. In the next collateral line 

 the son of a man's female cousin is his nephew, and the son of 

 this nephew is grand-son. 



VII. — All the grandsons of brothers are brothers to each other, 

 and the same of all the grandsons of sisters, while all the grand- 

 sons of brothers on the one hand, and of sisters on the other, are 

 cousins ; and the same relationship continues to the remotest gen- 

 eration in each case, so long as these persons stand in the same 

 degree of nearness to the original brothers and sisters. But when 

 one is farther removed than the other, by a single degree, the rule 

 which changes the collateral line into the lineal at once applies : 

 thus the son of one cousin becomes a nephew to the other cousin, 

 and the son of this nephew a grandson. In like manner the son 

 of one brother becomes a son to the other brother, and the son of 

 this son, a grandson. 



VIII. — Consequently, the descendants of brothers and sisters, 

 or of an original pair, could not, in theory, ever pass beyond the 

 degree of cousin, that being the most remote degree of relation- 

 ship recognized, and the greatest divergence allowed from the 

 lineal line. Ilcncc the bond of consanguinity which can never, in 

 fact, be broken by lapse of time, was not, as a fundamental idea 

 of the Indian system, suffered to be broken in principle. 



IX. — All the wives of these several brothers, without discrim- 

 ination, and all the wives of these several male cousins, are inter- 



