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n. - Line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family.

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  • Looking at what is happening now in 'ghanistan and Iraq, one might come to question agnation building. ag
  • When will the laws of heredity, and the by-laws of agnation result in an altruism, where human bloodshed is an unknown horror?
  • 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...
  • 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...
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