The articles from the Italian law "Civil Code" which characterize the degrees of the family ties.

Art.74 - RELATIONSHIP

  • Family tie is the bond between people all coming from the same jamb.

    Art.75 - LINES OF FAMILY TIE

  • The people descending the one from the other are related, even by an indirect way the ones which also if they have a common jamb aren't descending the one from the other.

    Art.76 - THE COMPUTATION OF THE DEGREES

  • Are computated in a direct line many degrees as the number of the generations, except the jamb. In the collateral line the degrees are computated from generations, climbing up from a related with the same jamb and from this one going down to another related, always excluding the jamb.
  • Art.77 - THE LIMITS OF FAMILY TIES

  • The law doesn't recognize the family tie over the 6th degree, except if for some reasons determinant a different situation.
  • Art.78 - AFFINITY

  • Affinity is the bond between consorts and the relatives of one of the consort, he is the cognate of the other consort.
  • Affinity, doesn't end for death, also without offspring, of the consort which derives from, except for some effects especially determinants it sends if marriage is declared null.  

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