Complex sentence: In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity, as distinguished from consanguinity, is kinship by marriage, i.e. the relation which each party to a marriage, the husband and wife, bears to the kindred of the other.
Split into simpler sentences: In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity, as distinguished from consanguinity, is kinship by marriage. It is the relation which each party to a marriage, the husband and wife, bears to the kindred of the other.