lineal descent

Membership to the tribe is based on lineal descent.

He never married, so claims for lineal descent on both sides of the Atlantic are very doubtful.

A royal descent is a lineal descent from a monarch.

Tribal enrollment is 845, with 728 members living within the state of Oklahoma, and is based on lineal descent.

Tribes have established their own criteria for membership, which are often based on blood quantum, lineal descent, or residency.

They based enrollment on lineal descent, that is, they have no minimum blood quantum requirements.

Legal adoptions shall not qualify for lineal descent.

Enrollment is based in lineal descent; that is, the tribe has no minimum blood quantum requirement.

Kilpack claims lineal descent from the poet, Alfred Tennyson.

Instead, the prophet/president of the church is chosen by lineal descent from the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr.

There's Condoleezza Rice, even if she cannot claim lineal descent from Kenyan goat-herders.

Tribal enrollment is based on lineal descent from 1890 and 1895 tribal rolls and does not require a minimum blood quantum.

Neither had the registers at any time provided the requisite detail to allow the verification of age, lineal descent, or right of inheritance.

I only wish it were possible to work out a lineal descent pattern, a phylogeny, but that is impossible since he is not of our dimension."

This places Dune, in direct lineal descent from Campbellian SF."

Lineal descent means that anyone directly descended from original tribal enrollees could be eligible for tribal enrollment, regardless of how much Indian blood they have.

Among Native American tribes in the United States, tribal enrollment can be determined by lineal descent, as opposed to a minimum blood quantum.

With the marriage, their lineal descent was raised in style from Grand Ducal Highness to Royal Highness.

Also my direct lineal descent--" Proserpina paused, then said, "I must inquire as to the state of the Map of Earth.

Many of these groups generally speak of a lineal descent from earlier branches of the ancient Rosicrucian Order in England, France, Egypt, or other countries.

However, proximity by blood (anchisteia), or consanguinity (syngeneia), was not, with some few exceptions, a bar to marriage in any part of Greece; direct lineal descent was.

The Cherokee Nation determines enrollment by lineal descent from Cherokees listed on the Dawes Rolls and has no minimum blood quantum requirement.

The Order derives its name from the historical Knights Templar, but does not claim any direct lineal descent from the original Templar order.

The government of the United States today is in lineal descent more nearly related to that of Connecticut than to that of any of the other thirteen colonies."

In a somewhat similar fashion, Roman emperors promoted themselves to godhood, claiming lineal descent not only from demigods such as Hercules, but from none other than Jupiter himself.