4. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale. Wordsworth.
5. (Genealogy)
Defn: Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; — opposed to lineal.
Note: Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather. Blackstone.
Collateral assurance, that which is made, over and above the deed itself. — Collateral circulation (Med. & Physiol.), circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed. — Collateral issue. (Law) (a) An issue taken upon a matter aside from the merits of the case. (b) An issue raised by a criminal convict who pleads any matter allowed by law in bar of execution, as pardon, diversity of person, etc. (c) A point raised, on cross- examination, aside from the issue fixed by the pleadings, as to which the answer of the witness, when given, cannot subsequently be contradicted by the party asking the question. — Collateral security, security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security,
COLLATERAL
Col*lat"er*al, n.
1. A collateral relative. Ayliffe.
2. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
COLLATERALLY
Col*lat"er*al*ly, adv.
1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins.