Tribal equality, or rather gradation of rank according to blood relationship, thus became no doubt overlaid or crossed by an actual inequality, which earlier or later developed in some sense into an irregular form of lordship and service.
The ermine spot has also sometimes been used in British armory as the difference mark granted under a Royal Licence to assume name and arms when it is necessary to indicate the absence of blood relationship.
The mark used to signify a lack of blood relationship, and a mark used to signify illegitimacy are each termed a "mark of distinction," i.
Here, as in all other cases, the degree of the internal agreement in the form discloses to us the degree of blood relationship.
The question therefore would always be merely about a nearer or remoter degree of blood relationship.
These form-relationships, however, as the reader has seen, are in reality the necessary result of true blood relationship.
By this, however, we at the same time obtain an insight into their true blood relationship, which, according to the Theory of Descent, is the real reason of the structural relationship.
The terms do not denote degrees of blood relationship, but of brotherhood in the totem (or phratry, or matrimonial class).
Thus the tribal names may result from an expanded use of earlier names of blood relationship, or names of tribal status may now be applied to include persons who are within degrees of blood relationship.
Mr. Hill-Tout writes to me, "The totem groups are exogamous not because of their common totem, but because of blood relationship.
I quote a phrase from the table of contents: "The most ancient system in which the idea of blood relationship was embodied was a system of kinship through females only.
MacLennan uses also the kinship concept as identical with that of blood relationship.
Though kinship, however, is not equivalent to blood relationship in our sense of the term, it is founded on the idea of common blood which all within the kin possess, and to which all outside the kin are strangers.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blood relationship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.