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affinity definition - legal

n

  1. A close agreement.
  2. The attraction between people.
  3. Any relationship created by marriage. See also consanguinity.
  4. A term used to describe the relationship that one has to the adopted or blood (and usually close) relatives of their spouse. For example, affinity exists between a woman and her husbandÂ’s brother.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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