Issue (genealogy)

In genealogy and wills, a person's issue is his or her lineal descendants.

Lineal descendants

"Issue" typically means a person's lineal descendants—all genetic descendants of a person, regardless of degree.[1] Issue is a narrower category than heirs, which includes spouses, and collaterals (siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles).[2] This meaning of issue arises most often in wills and trusts.[3] A person who has no living lineal descendants is said to have died without issue.

gollark: Actually, try using the advanced potatOS technology of superglobals.
gollark: Just don't do it.
gollark: You can actually do `(nil).z` and right now it'll return 5 or something.
gollark: Also anything else at random.
gollark: PotatOS breaks a small minority of programs which do weird exotic things.

See also

References
  1. Glenda K. Harnad, J. D. and Karl Oakes, J. D., Corpus Juris Secundum, Descent and Distribution § 35 (2015)
  2. HEIR, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014).
  3. For example, In re Auclair's Estate, 75 Cal. App. 2d 189, 170 P.2d 29 (1st Dist. 1945); Brawford v. Wolfe, 103 Mo. 391, 15 S.W. 426 (1891)
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