Note 1124 — Chapter VIII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH DEVELOPS AND ADMINISTERS MATRIMONIAL LAW

Thus, according to the Roman law, brother and sister are in the second degree; but by the canon law they are in the first degree. Second cousins by the canonists are regarded as in the third degree; by the Romans, as in the sixth (if they are equally distant from the common ancestor): Meyrick, op. cit., II, 1725; Pollock and Maitland, op. cit., II, 383-85; Esmein, op. cit., I, 351 ff.; Freisen, Geschichte des can. Eherechts, 371-439. For the eastern church see Zhishman, Das Eherecht der orient. Kirche, 213-373.