Relation

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.

Reference; respect; regard.

Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.

A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.

The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.

The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.

a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; "his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"