Agnatic Kindred
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Ancient Law
The kin group related through male descent, second in order of succession under Roman Civil Law and holders of guardianship over infant heirs.
The guardianship is generally that of the male Agnates;
The Agnatic Union of the kindred in ancient Roman law, and a multitude of similar indications, point to a period at which all the ramifying branches of the family tree held together in one organic whole;
If he left no direct descendants living at his death, the nearest grade of the Agnatic kindred succeeded, but no part of the inheritance was given to any relative united (however closely) with the dead man through female descents.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The collective body of kinsmen related exclusively through male descent, a Roman group paralleled among the South Slavonians.
Again, above the Agnatic Kindred, there was yet another and a more extensive group, of which the origin was lost in antiquity, but which was believed by the Romans themselves to have been formed as the Agnati were formed—that is, by descent through males alone from a real common male ancestor.
’ Still more convincing evidence is furnished by the fact observed by Professor Bogišić, that the South Slavonians, like the Romans, maintain a clear distinction between Agnatic and Cognatic relationship, which they term respectively kinship through the great blood and kinship through the little.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The Roman kin-group defined by common patriarchal descent, used as a comparative reference.
and to these last, as to the Agnatic Kindred at Rome, some ultimate right of succession appears to be reserved.
The family thus formed by the continuance of several generations in union is identical in outline with a group very familiar to the students of the older Roman law—the Agnatic Kindred.