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Several volumes of ''Smith's Laws'', enacted from 1700 through 1829, contain certain public and private laws of the Province and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Several laws with a prescribed punishment against adultery, bigamy, incest and fornication and all combinations of those crimes were enacted in 1705.<ref>{{cite web |volume=I |work=Smith's Laws |title=The table of degrees of consanguinity and affinity |url=http://www.palrb.us/smithlaws/17001799/1705/0/act/0122.pdf |format=PDF |year=1705 |accessdate=July 6, 2009}}</ref>

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Consanguinity is also relevant in issues of [[inheritance]]. In regard to the law of [[Intestacy|intestate succession]] (when a person dies without a will), under the [[Uniform Probate Code]] of the [[United States]] section 2-103, after a surviving spouse receives his or her share, the descendants (depending on the circumstances this may include children, grandchildren, or great grandchildren, either biological or adopted) receive the remainder of the intestate estate. If there are no children, the decedent's parent(s) receive the remainder of the estate. If there are neither descendants nor parents, the decedent's estate is distributed to descendants of the decedent's parents (again, depending on the circumstances, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, grand nieces and nephews and great grand nieces and nephews). If there are no descendants, parents, or descendants of parents, then the deceased's property passes to the decedent's grandparents, or if no grandparents, then the descendants of the grandparents of the decedent (uncles and aunts, first cousins, or first cousins once, twice, or thrice removed, second cousins, third cousins etc.).