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Collateral   /kəlˈætərəl/   Listen
noun
Collateral  n.  
1.
A collateral relative.
2.
Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.


adjective
Collateral  adj.  
1.
Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. "Collateral light."
2.
Acting in an indirect way. "If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give... To you in satisfaction."
3.
Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. "That he (Attebury) was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it,... is true."
4.
Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. "Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale."
5.
(Genealogy) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; opposed to lineal. Note: Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather.
Collateral assurance, that which is made, over and above the deed itself.
Collateral circulation (Med. & Physiol.), circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed.
Collateral issue. (Law)
(a)
An issue taken upon a matter aside from the merits of the case.
(b)
An issue raised by a criminal convict who pleads any matter allowed by law in bar of execution, as pardon, diversity of person, etc.
(c)
A point raised, on cross-examination, aside from the issue fixed by the pleadings, as to which the answer of the witness, when given, cannot subsequently be contradicted by the party asking the question.
Collateral security, security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security.
collateral damage, (Mil.) damage caused by a military operation, such as a bombing, to objects or persons not themselves the intended target of the attack.





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... forbear. Associated Words: atavic, atavism, lineal, collateral, hereditary, heredity, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... were of stout Puritan stock, dating back almost to the days of the Mayflower. His first American "forebear" was a Puritan minister, Rev. John Sherman, an emigrant to the Connecticut colony from Essex in England. Of one of the collateral branches was Roger Sherman, drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The father of the soldier was Judge Sherman, of the Ohio Supreme Court; his mother was ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 • Various
... seizing upon the lands. Another Rajah, of the same name, Mahdoo Persaud, of Amethee, in Salone, has lately seized upon the estate of Shahgur, worth twenty thousand rupees a-year, which had been cut off from the Amethee estate, and enjoyed by a collateral branch of the family for several generations. He holds the proprietor, Bulwunt Sing, in prison, in irons, and would soon make away with him were the Oude Government to think it worth while to inquire after him. He has seized upon another portion, Ramgur, held by ...
— A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II • William Sleeman
... distribution of the wife's personal property on her death without will is as follows: It goes, after paying her debts, to her husband, if living; if not, then 1st, to her children, 2d to her father, 3d to her mother, 4th to her collateral relatives. This order may be varied or defeated by her will. She may devise it as ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people, and while speculating upon the possible influence which the one, in the long lapse of centuries, might have exercised upon the other—it was this deficiency, perhaps, of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission, from sire to son, of the patrimony with the name, which had, at length, so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in ...
— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various


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