Cognation
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Cognates · Cognatic relationship · cognatio · cognation · ius naturale
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1 expressionCognatio“cognation”1 mention
Institutes of Roman Law (English)
Thus, between an uncle and his sister’s son there is not agnation, but cognation:
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Blood kinship, including through females, a natural-law tie contrasted with the civil-law tie of agnation.
Thus, between an uncle and his sister’s son there is not agnation, but cognation:
at hi qui per feminini sexus personas cognatione coniunguntur non sunt agnati, sed alias naturali iure cognati.
Sed agnationis quidem ius capitis deminutione perimitur, cognationis uero ius eo modo non commutatur, quia ciuilis ratio ciuilia quidem iura corrumpere potest, naturalia uero non potest.
Ancient Law
Kinship traced through common descent regardless of sex, contrasted with Agnation.
Cognatic relationship is simply the conception of kinship familiar to modern ideas;
The Prætors early laid hold on Cognation as the natural form of kinship, and spared no pains in purifying their system from the older conception.
or, if we take the strict technical meaning of the word in Roman law, they are all who trace their blood to the legitimate marriage of a common pair.