Agnati
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Adgnati.
Lat. In the civil law. Relations by the father; relations through males; translated in Scotch law, and sometimes by English writers, agnates or agnais, (q."v.) 2 Si. Com. 235. Sunt agnati cognati per virilis sexiis cognationem conjunctly quasi a paire cognati; agnati are relations connected by a relationship of the male sex, as it were related by the father.
Inst. 1. 15. 1.' 7c?. 3. 2. 1.
See Cognati.
See Cognati.