AGNATI. In Civil Law. All individuals subject for the time being to the same pa trio potestas, or who would be so subject were the common ancestor alive. Brothers and sisters, with their uncles, aunts, neph ews, nieces, and other collaterals (not hav ing been received by adoption or marriage into another family), if related through males, were agnates. The civil issue of the state was the Agnatic Family. Cognates were all persons who could trace their blood to a single ancestor or ancestress, and ag nates were those cognates who traced their connection exclusively through males. Maine, Anc. Law.
"The agnates were that assemblage of per sons who would have been under the patri archal authority of some common ancestor if he had lived long enough to exercise it." Maine, Early Hist. of Inst. 106. A son eman cipated by his father lost all rights of agna tion.
They were called agnati—adgnati, from the words ad eum nati. Ulplanus says: "Adgnati autem suet cognati virilis sexes ab eodem orti: ream post suns et consanguineos statim milt% proximus est con sanguinei mei fttius, et ego ei; patris quoque (rater qui patruus appellatur; deincepaque ceterl, si qui aunt, her orti in infinitum;" Dig. 38, 16. De suss,
2, § 1. Thus, although, the grandfather and father being dead, the children become sui furls, and the males become the founders of new families, still they all continue to be agnates ; and the agnatio spreads and is perpetuated not only in the direct but also in the collateral line. Marriage, adoption, and adrogation also create the relationship of the agnatio. In the Sentences of Paulus, the order of Inheritance is stated as follows: Intentatorum he redita,s, lege Duodecim Tabularum primum 85448 iteredibus, deinde adgnatis et atiquando quoque gentibus deferebatur. See COGNAT1.