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2010 Maryland Code
ESTATES AND TRUSTS
TITLE 1 - ESTATES OF DECEDENTS - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Subtitle 2 - Determining Relationship
Section 1-203 - Degree of relationship - Civil law.

§ 1-203. Degree of relationship - Civil law.
  

Degrees of relationship shall be reckoned according to the method of the civil law by beginning with either of the persons in question, ascending to the common ancestor, and then descending to the other person. One degree shall be counted for each step both ascending and descending. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 93, § 1-203; 1974, ch. 11, § 2.] 
 

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