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Rh to the number of blood-relations found in the prohibitions.

But Omicron has contrived, by inventing a new relative, to reduce the number to three only: the wife's "mother, daughter, and grand-daughter," (p. 28.) This new relative is denominated by him affinity through blood. He distributes relations into three kinds. The relation of a step-mother he calls "affinity through blood;" that of a wife's step-mother, "affinity through marriage;" that of a sister, "blood," (p. 28, near the top.) Affinity through blood we regard as a mere abuse of terms. A step-mother sustains no such relation. Her relation is by affinity or marriage. Equally erroneous is it in Omicron to denominate "paternal uncle's wife," "son's wife," and "brother's wife," "affinity through blood."

There are but two kinds of relatives; one by blood, and the other by marriage. Consanguinity is applied to the former, and affinity to the latter. Webster defines affinity, "The relation contracted by marriage, between a husband and his wife's kindred, and between a wife and her husband's kindred; in contradistinction from