These were the wife, who passed by manus into the family of her husband (section 18), becoming by law his agnate and the agnate of all his agnates, and the adopted son.
On the failure of the sui, the Nearest Agnate came into their place, that is, the nearest person or class of the kindred who was or might have been under the same Patria Potestas with the deceased.
The fine for intentional murder shall be one hundred and five pesos; seventy for theagnate and cognate heirs of the murdered person and thirty-five for the treasury.
If a free person is abducted, the fine shall be divided equally between his agnate and cognate heirs and the treasury.
Besides, magnetick mines are only agnate to the true earth, not innate: hence the whole globe does not regard them, and magneticks are not borne to them, as is demonstrated by the diagram of eminences.
At Le Locle, in the Jura, he wrote Agnate and the Merman; and in October 1834 he arrived in Rome.
The motive to the act was not so generally childlessness, or the gratification of affection, as the desire to acquire those civil and agnate rights which were founded on the patria potestas.
If a man dies without having made a will at all, the agnate who takes is the one who was nearest at the time of the death of the deceased.
This was not much of an improvement; and the principle of agnate succession is the only point in which Roman law failed to give to women those equal rights which it allowed them in other cases.
Where the agnate was a minor, of weak mind, or otherwise incapacitated, he did not forfeit this right, but it had to be exercised by a third party.
It is true, that should her father die intestate, she takes an equal share with her brothers of the inheritance; but in all other cases of intestacy the nearest female agnate stands after the most distant male.
But it is hardly supposable that the law compelled the agnate to divorce his wife and marry the heiress, or that he could obtain the estate without becoming her husband.
If after her marriage she could inherit as an agnate it would transfer the property inherited from her own gens to that of her husband.
