Cognati
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In the civil law. Cognates; relations by the mother's side.
2 Bl. Com. 236.
Relations by, or through females; (qui per foeminini sexus personas cognatione junguntur.) Inst. 1.
16. 1. Id. 3, 6.
A man's cognates are his mother, grandmother, (mother's mother,) mother's brother, mother's sister, sister's son, &c.
1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 137, note.
Relations generally; properly, by blood; persons of the same blood; (from con, together, and nati, born;) as though born together, (Gr. syngeneis,) or sprung from the same source.
Dig. 38. 10. 4. 1. Id. 38. 10. 10. 1.