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Definition of Grandnieces
1. grandniece [n] - See also: grandniece
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandnieces
Literary usage of Grandnieces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"... and that under the bequests to " each of the present nieces of Peter Eaton,"
his grandnieces and great-grandnieces were entitled to take. ..."
2. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1864)
"... as being the only issue of all the surviving grandnephews and grandnieces.
Colonel Macdougall claims to be preferred on the fund in media, ..."
3. Reports of Cases by New York (State). Court of Appeals (1907)
"188. surrounding circumstances, to include grandnephews aud grandnieces who
represented the families of deceased nephews and nieces under the term ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: With a by Francis Stack Murphy, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1838)
"In the month of September, 1779, Catherine Stephens died, without having revoked
her will, leaving her grandnieces, Catherine Jones and Elizabeth Jones ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"30, where a testator directed: "The balance is to be divided among my grandnephews
and grandnieces (descendants of my brothers and sisters except Daniel ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1891)
"Grandnephews and grandnieces held to be included under the term "nephews and
nieces" in a will. Shepard ir. Shepard, 57 Conn. 24- of every description ..."
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