Agnate

I daresay the closest agnate relative would inherit. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2009)

Women remained tied to the domestic sphere and lived under the control of father, husband, or male agnate. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Thou art my agnate, and lovely to behold, -- so thou shouldst not be slain by me, -- yet I shall to-day devour thee! ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

It was enacted [174] that all the children should be called to the estate, whether they had been under the power of the testator at the time of his death or not; and female relatives were now allowed to come in for their share "in the third degree," that is, if there was neither a child or an agnate surviving. ❋ Eugene A. Hecker (N/A)

This was not much of an improvement; and the principle of agnate succession is the only point in which Roman law failed to give to women those equal rights which it allowed them in other cases. ❋ Eugene A. Hecker (N/A)

If there be no male agnate, the [deceased's] clansmen [20] shall have possession of the estate. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The nearest agnate took, and there was no right of representation, although here again the prætor made innovations which were supplemented by the legislation of Justinian. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The father succeeded to his emancipated child, not as an agnate, but as a manumissor. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The mother was not an agnate, and did not succeed to her children, nor did they succeed to her. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The Twelve Tables provided that, in the absence of children, the nearest agnate should be called: this was known as the statutory succession of the agnates. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

According to the laws of Germany governing the succession of its sovereign houses, the regency in such a case as that presented by the principality of Lippe, should have fallen to the lot of the nearest living agnate. ❋ Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De (1900)

So, too, if your brother, or your paternal uncle, or even a more remote agnate, adopts any one, that person undoubtedly becomes one of your agnates. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

And although that statute, in speaking of the nearest agnate, uses the singular number, there is no doubt that if there are several of the same degree they are all admitted: for though properly one can speak of 'the nearest degree' only when there are several, yet it is certain that even though all the agnates are in the same degree the inheritance belongs to them. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

But as it was most unjust that such females should be as completely excluded as if they were strangers, the praetor admits them to the possession of goods promised in that part of the edict in which mere natural kinship is recognised as a title to succession, under which they take provided there is no agnate, or other cognate of a nearer degree of relationship. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

If there is no family heir, nor any of those persons called to the succession along with family heirs by the praetor or the imperial legislation, to take the inheritance in any way, it devolves, by the statute of the Twelve Tables, on the nearest agnate. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

Thus the son of your father's sister is no agnate of yours, but merely your cognate, and vice versa; for children are member's of their father's family, and not of your mother's. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

Orange-Nassau with succession in default of heirs-male by the family compact, known as the _Nassauischer Erbverein_, to the nearest male agnate of the elder branch of the Nassau family, have already been related. ❋ George Edmundson (1889)

But by a family-pact [9], agreed upon in 1735 and renewed in 1783, the territorial possessions of either line in default of male-heirs had to pass to the next male-agnate of the other branch. ❋ George Edmundson (1889)

In Korea, for instance, he can only adopt an agnate and one of a lower generation than his own. ❋ Percival Lowell (1885)

Assuming, as seems probable, that Ollantay was a son of the chief of Anta, he would be a cousin of the Inca, and of very high rank, though not an agnate of the reigning family. ❋ Clements R. Markham (1873)

Rather than writing [that one thing] is like another, she suggested, pupils might use “[commensurate]” or “agnate,” which means related through male descent or on [the father]’s side. ❋ Ullman (2020)