What are by-laws and by-laws?
When I was a student (over fifty years ago) I had a landlady who used to talk about her aunt-by-law. I wish I had been brave enough to ask her the nature of the relationship, but I have always assumed it was either her husband’s aunt or the wife of one of her mother’s brothers.
Has anyone else ever heard the term by law?
What factors are the main culprits in being honest about something?
Aunt by -law would be the wife of one of one’s parents’ siblings. You share no blood with that woman, but she s/he married your uncle. You share no blood with that woman.
Does the one in the family call her aunt in law? What are typically in-laws?
Why are uncles and aunts called cousins, but never makes a distinction between by blood and by-law uncles or aunts growing up.
Is she/he an uncle-by-courtesy? Now it’s just an honorific to give someone older than you their first name, some of your parents’.
