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QUATER COUSIN Definition & Legal Meaning

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Properly, a cousin in the fourth degree ; but the term has come to express auy remote degree of relationship, and even to bear an ironical signification, in which it denotes a very trifling degree of intimacy and regard. Often corrupted into “cater” cousin

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