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Amitinus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Amitivus.

Lat. In the civil law. The son of an amita, or paternal aunt. Amitiva; the daughter of an amita. Bract. fol.

68 b.

The children of a brother and the children of a sister were properly the amitini of each other.

Inst. 3. 6. 2.

The sons of your paternal aunt (amitae tuae filii) call you consobrinos; you call them amitini. Id. ibid. In Bracton this word is printed amitiuus.