None of them showed interest in each other, beyond their own immediate agnates. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
I daresay the closest agnate relative would inherit. From Wordnik.com. [TOO MANY MURDERS] Reference
Women remained tied to the domestic sphere and lived under the control of father, husband, or male agnate. From Wordnik.com. [5. The Hellenistic World, to 30 B.C.E] Reference
Thou art my agnate, and lovely to behold, -- so thou shouldst not be slain by me, -- yet I shall to-day devour thee!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.] Reference
In law, the term consanguine is used in place of agnate. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
The father succeeded to his emancipated child, not as an agnate, but as a manumissor. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
No two admirers are agnate in admeasurement or in the alternative of aggregation members. From Wordnik.com. [VInvesting.com] Reference
The mother was not an agnate, and did not succeed to her children, nor did they succeed to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
In Korea, for instance, he can only adopt an agnate and one of a lower generation than his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
If not, it is of aggravating agnate Germany to receive back your learning alone received basal words. condividi - cerca i tuoi siti preferiti. From Wordnik.com. [Ultimi bookmark postati su Segnalo] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
Just like a typical Igbo man, he would be content to be the lord of his own small domain - his house, beyond which threshold, he becomes a rightful agnate, with others, to the land. From Wordnik.com. [Vanguard News] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]
The domain thus held in common is sometimes administered by an elected manager, but more generally, and in some provinces always, it is managed by the eldest agnate, by the eldest representative of the eldest line of the stock. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
U.S. Economy: Consumer S.ending Increases as Incomes S.agnate. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
7 In agnatic succession the established rule was that the right of accepting the inheritance could not pass from a nearer to a more remote degree; in other words, that if the nearest agnate, who, as we have described, is called to the inheritance, either refuses it or dies before acceptance, the agnates of the next grade have no claim to admittance under the Twelve Tables. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
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