mediate descent

In one sense of the term, a descent not cast immediately, as where a grandson takes by descent land once owned by his intestate grandfather, but not directly from his grandfather, the descent having first been cast upon his father and then from his father upon him. In a more practical and different sense, a descent cast directly upon the heir but through an intermediate link or degree of consanguinity, as from grandfather to grandson, the father being dead, but nevertheless constituting an intermediate link or degree of consanguinity. Lessee of Levy v M'Cartee (US) 6 Pet 102, 112, 8 L Ed 334, 338. Comparably, a descent to a cousin, the latter not inheriting immediately from the intestate but only mediately through the parents of each of them. Cramer v McCann, 83 Kan 719, 112 P 832.