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Gens

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A Roman tribe composed of families, of the same name and descended from a common ancestor.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

LatIn Roman law. A tribe or clan; a group of families, connected by common descent and bearing the same name, being all free-born and of free ancestors, and in possession of full civic rights.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

t In Roman law. A class or clan; a people or nation; a subdivision of the Roman people next in order to the curia (q. v.), and which was again subdivided into familice.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Romantaw. <Atribeor clan; a group of families, connected by common descent and bearing the same name, being all free-born and of free ancestors, and in possession of full civic rights.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat.

In Roman law. A class or clan; a subdivision of the Roman people next in order to the curia, (q. v.) and which was again subdivided into families, Adam's Bom. Ant, 34. Brands. See Familia, A people or nation. See Oentes.