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Agnation   Listen
noun
Agnation  n.  
1.
(Civil Law) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.





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... law, persons related through males only, as opposed to cognates. Agnation was founded on the idea of the family held together by the patria potestas; cognatio involves simply the modern ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Agnation" :   patrilineage, unilateral descent


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