AFFINITY

At common law. Rela• tion ship by marriage between the husband and the blood relations of the wife, and be- 8 tween the wife and the blood relations of the husband. 1 Bl. Comm: 434; So linger 'i. Earle, 45 N. Y. Super. Ct. 80; Tegarden v. Phillips (Ind. App.) 39 N. E. 212. Affinity is distinguished into three kinds: (1) C Direct, or that subsisting between the husband and his wife's relations by blood, or between the wife and the husband's relations by blood; (2) Becondary, or that which subsists between the husband and his wife's relations by marliage; (3) collateral, or that which subsists between the husband and the relations of his D wife's rela.tions. Wharton. · In the civil law. The connection which arises by marriage between each person of the married pair and the kindred or the other. Mackeld Rom. Law, § 147; Poy-' f dras v. Livings ton, 5 Mart. 0. S. (La.) 295. A husband is related by affinity to all the consanguine i of his wife, and vice vers a, the wife to the husband's consanguine i,; for the husband and wife being considered one flesh, those who are related to the one by blood f are related to the other by affinity. Gib. Cod. 412; 1 BI. Comm. 435. In a larger sense, consanguinity or kindred. Co. Litt. lfj7a. -Quasi affinity. In the civil law. The af- G finity which exists between two persons, one of whom has been betrothed to a kinsman of the other, but who have never been married. [s. 53]