relation

• the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman
• an act of narration
• an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
• a person related by blood or marriage
• (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
• (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
• The act of relating or telling
• The state of being related or of referring
• Reference
• Connection by consanguinity or affinity
• A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity
• 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

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