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[cellio]

Is there a word in English to designate the person who is my husband's brother-in-law? Saying that he is my brother-in-law implies, to me, that either he is my sister's husband or my husband's brother. The person I'm describing is my husband's sister's husband.

I don't need this word often, but the person in question comes up in conversation just often enough to cause me to trip over this too many times.

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Inlaws and Outlaws :D

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

Forgive the subject line, it's the punchline of an old joke. "If marriage is outlawed, then only outlaws will have in-laws." I did a search on Google for "husband's sister's husband" and came up with only five pages, most of which were irrelevant. The rest seem evenly divided between "brother-in-law" and "no relation".

Since there doesn't appear to be a standardized word in English, you may want to consider stealing the appropriate term from the Hindu language. Of course then you'd spend more time explaining the term then you would have explaining the relationship. :D Check it out!
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/101/FamilyAndRelations/default.asp?l1=nul