Cognates
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Institutes of Roman Law
Natural kinship (through males or females), progressively recognized by the praetor's edict and finally made the sole basis of succession by Justinian's Novella 118.
Cognates who trace their kin through females are similarly barred, so that even a mother and a son or daughter have no reciprocal right of succession, unless by subjection to the hand of the husband the mother has become a quasi sister to her children.
(3) Next of kin (proximi cognati) to the sixth degree, including those who had neglected to claim in the first or second order.
He is seven degrees from his second cousin’s children, and this is the only case in which the seventh degree of cognation was recognized as giving a title to succeed in intestacy, the law only recognizing in other lines the sixth degree of cognation.