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Definition of Nephews
1. nephew [n] - See also: nephew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephews
Literary usage of Nephews
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"SONS AND nephews OF CONSTANTINE. been already mentioned under the names of ...
Mr* nephews or were successively invested with the title of Caesar. ..."
2. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"After grandparents come uncles, aunts, nephews, and nieces (A), ... great nephews
and nieces, and first cousins, being in the fourth degree, ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by Theophilus Parsons (1836)
"the issues of the nephews are provided for, then a different construction must
prevail; 9 East. 382. his issue. The testator has, therefore, ..."
4. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus, Ralph Francis Kerr (1891)
"These empty speeches were made because everyone knew how dearly the Pope loved
his nephews.t In reality there was no love lost between the new Prefect and ..."
5. A Concise Treatise on the Construction of Wills by Francis Vaughan Hawkins, John Sword, Frederick Moore Leonard (1885)
"A gift to "nephews" or "nieces" does not include great-nephews or great-nieces.
... i nephews, $c., by marriage.—Nor does the word " nephew" or " niece," ..."
6. Practical Conveyancing: A Selection of Forms of General Utility, with Notes by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1853)
"His ten nephews and nieces (of the whole blood) take each one tenth of a third ($1000);
... The two nephews take one share or tenth part, between them. ..."
7. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"A gift to nephews and Nieces (like one to CHILDREN) includes such as are en ventre
sa mere (Re Hallett, WN (92) 148). " As regards the term 'Nephew' and ..."
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