Agnation

The agnates, who were an important class of kinsmen, in the early Roman law were cognates connected through males either by blood relationship or by the artificial tie of agnation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Those only were called who were bound in agnation to the deceased through males; hence females beyond sisters were not called. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This hard rule again the praetors did not leave entirely without correction, though their remedy, which consisted in the admission of such persons, since they were excluded from the rights of agnation, in the rank of cognates, was inadequate. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

When will the laws of heredity, and the by-laws of agnation result in an altruism, where human bloodshed is an unknown horror? ❋ Unknown (1872)

Each of these is essentially ancestor-worship, the ancestors being reckoned back through family groups, of higher and higher order, sometimes with strict reference to the principle of agnation, as in old Rome; and, as in the latter, it is intimately bound up with the whole organisation of the State. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

Looking at what is happening now in 'ghanistan and Iraq, one might come to question agnation building. ag ❋ Unknown (2009)

Testaments were vitiated in several ways: nullum, void from the beginning, where there was a defect in the institution of the heir or incapacity in the testator; injustum, not legally executed and hence void; ruptum, by revocation or by the agnation of a posthumous child, either natural or civil; irruptum, where the testator had lost the civil status necessary for testation; destitutum, where the heir defaulted because dead or unwilling, or upon failure of the condition; recissum, as the consequence of a legal attack upon an undutiful will. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

We, however, have followed the Twelve Tables in this department of law, and adhered to their principles: and, while we commend the praetors for their sense of equity, we cannot hold that their remedy was adequate; for when the degree of natural relationship was the same, and when the civil title of agnation was conferred by the older law on males and females alike, why should males be allowed to succeed all their agnates, and women (except sisters) be debarred from succeeding any? ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

1 When an independent person gives himself in adrogation, all his property, corporeal and incorporeal, and all debts due to him formerly passed in full ownership to the adrogator, except such rights as are extinguished by loss of status, for instance, bounden services of freedmen and rights of agnation. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

2 The relation of agnation can also be established by adoption, for instance, between a man's own sons and those whom he has adopted, all of whom are properly called consanguinei in relation to one another. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

'consobrini, are one another's agnates, so that it is easy to arrive at various degrees of agnation. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

3 Loss of status of any kind ordinarily extinguishes rights by agnation, for agnation is a title of civil law. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

8 The degrees of agnation are also reckoned in the same manner; ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

But when our Autarch came for us and we woke to life, we found no agnation in all that we had studied. " ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1987)

n. - state of being unable to swallow. adj. - having same male forefather; allied; Law, related on father's side; n. such relative. agnation, agnathous adj. - lacking jaws. agnathia, n. agnoiology ❋ Unknown (2008)

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)