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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

GROVER SELLERS 

&rro”Nl.” GCNCRAL 

Bonorable IO H. Barton 

County Attorney 

Runk cotmt~ 

Bendereon, Texas 

Dear bfr. Barton: Qplnlon Ko. O-7433 

Rer The Kepotim Sta 

ector48aesmor of 

is A. T. Boren's brother 

oren is T. A+ Boren'e son 

David Boren'm rife seeka to become Deputy 

Tax Assessor-Collector in the office of Oeo. E. 

Wood. 

Thus DWid Boren'a rite 1s by nwrirge the 

rife of Ike. Oeo. E. Wood's nephew. David Boren 

being the nephew of Mrm- Wood'm former husband.' 
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I,> :. : Lrtlole 43fi of the Penal Code, defining wlfepotimmw, 

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5. :10 OS folloTsl 

i, 'la offloer of this State or any officer of 

$ ,, 88J aistriot# oounty, oity, preolnet, sahool ah- 

,, i trlot, or other nmniolpal sabdivlsion of Ulia 

,,. ,i Skk, or say 0??10or or somber er My stotor 

dlstriot, oormty, oity, sobsol dlatrfot or other : i ~10ip0i boora, or me 0f UT 00urt, ar0a~1 

m or under authori* of oar gutera or apeoiol 

;:. low of this Note, or on17 ubor of the Ls&olo7~ tan, droll l ppolat, or tote for, or cmilrn the 

appointmat to amy e??lee, position, clerkship, 

-10-t or duty, et any person related wltbIa the oeooad dogwo br affinity or within UIO 

Shirt! dogroo by omm~galaity to the parson se 

8ppointlng or 00 toting, or to amy other member 

of amy ash board, tbo I,ogiilotPW, or aanrt O? 

wh ic h a eh p o w08 se l ppolntlng or toting ay be 

a rubore whsa tho m810~, foes, or oonpsamtlm 

o? aoh l ppointoe is to bo paid for, direotly or 

lndlreotlyr out of or from publie f'mds or fees 

a? offloe o? my kind or ahar8otor whotaeetor.’ 

Tenr question should be onsrered'ln the l fflrmatite. 

Beorgo B. Toad and David Borm are not related by aanmn~riait~ 

at all. I? there 1s amy poss.%ble relation, it mast be by a??in1ty. The molyais of your sitaotlm shomm that Dorld Beren Is 

not in anywise relotod to George P. Veoa, the Tax AssossorColleotor by offinlty, rlthln two degrees, but 0x1 the OOntrrrlr 

his rolotlon by offlnit~, if It eximto at all, Is for beyond two 

degrees, and larolrea 8 tooking of wparote o??lnltJ relatiOna, 

thus breaking the affinlt~ kinship whloh Is not permiufble in 

tho 6oeqmtatiom. 

There Is no statute defining the relationship #ii& 

;p ,; w l The OOxmon 108 Is the rule of deoision by adoptioWin 

The aommon-law rule is thus st8ted in 2 Corpus Jurls 

*oetl&ml, at p* 991: 

'M. At oomwn lam, the tera hoa been vario usly do fined l m the OOnneotlOn existing in Obnsequeaoo of aorrlago between ooeh of the q orrled 

persons and the Lindrsd Of the other; tbe O~XP 

neotion formed by merrioge which plooes the hmsI 
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buad in the some degree to tbo blood rolotlons a? 

the We OS that In vhlah she herself stands towords them sad gltes the wife the mom canneotlon 

with the blood reletiOn Of the husband; the relation oontrrotsd by mwrloge bot%een o husband oad 

his WISO~S kindred and botveea 8 wife and her hueband's kindred, In oontrodistinet~mr from ammcity, or relation by blood; the relotionobip 

whleb arises b7 morrioge betwoea one of the portie* and tho blood relations of tho othert the tie 

which orloee fram the urrioge botweem the husband 

sad the blood relations of the fife, and between 

tho rife and tho blood reletiOns a? the hu~bond-s 

EM tbot, Mrs. David Beron is no blood relotlon of 

Mrs. Oeorgs B. Too& and is tberefare no relotlre by l fflnit~ 

o f 0eorgo 1 . Toad. 

Tory truly yours 

AtMltRET QEREML OF TEX 

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