Agnation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Agnation \Ag*na"tion\, n. [L. agnatio: cf. F. agnation.]
     1. (Civil Law) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as
        distinguished from {cognation}. --Bouvier.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  agnation
       n : line of descent traced through the paternal side of the
           family [syn: {patrilineage}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  AGNATION, in descents. The relation by blood which exists between such males
  as are descended from the same father; in distinction from cognation or
  consanguinity, which includes the descendants from females. This term is
  principally used in the civil law.