All the agnatesshould be present on the tenth day, and perform tharpana (oblations of water).
All the agnates are then shaved by a Badaga or a barber.
The son and the agnates go to a tank bund (pond embankment), and cook food in a new pot within a shed which has been specially constructed for the occasion.
On the following day, all the old pots are thrown away, and the agnates eat rice cooked with margosa (Melia Azadirachta) leaves.
The otheragnates then do the same, and proceed in Indian file, males in front and females in the rear, to the corpse.
After it has been laid therein, all the agnatesthrow earth into it, and it is filled in and covered over with a mound, on to the head end of which five quarter-anna pieces are thrown.
On the other hand a son who had been emancipated (section 18) was excluded from agnatio with his father and his father's agnates, and could have no agnates of his own until he married or was adopted into another familia.
The legal proceedings with the agnates about the equality of birth, which still continued, and vexatious quarrels with neighbours, gave him but a gloomy satisfaction.
He announced every fresh birth to the agnates on a sheet of the largest royal folio.
His agnates could scarcely conceal the impatience with which they awaited for his death in order to take possession of the inheritance of the last of the Meiningens.
All the agnates place new turbans on their heads, and go back in procession to the village, accompanied by a Urimikkaran and washerman, who must be present throughout the ceremony.
On the fifth day, all the agnates are purified by the Vathiyan sprinkling water over them.
When agnates are entitled to be guardians, it is not all who are so entitled, but only those of the nearest degree, though if all are in the same degree, all are entitled.
Again, he calls family heirs and agnates to the possession of goods on an intestacy; and yet, even putting aside the possession of goods, the inheritance belongs to them already by the civil law.
The period of death pollution is eleven days, and the agnates are freed from it by a bath on the eleventh day.
That the king's refusal in August was a part of his fixed policy of waiting upon events was shown by his actually approaching the Confederation and the agnates in the following November (1833).
King William was informed that he must obtain the assent of the Germanic Confederation and of the Nassau agnates to the territorial adjustments.
The agnates no longer cleave together, the domestic tribunal has either lost its strength or has entirely disappeared.
We find, indeed, from the Florentine statutes, that while the preference given to the agnates increases as time goes on, so too the woman's rights to alimony increase.
When real property is sold, we find that the agnates and cognates have always a preferential right of purchase.
Similarly, the reipus, or fine leviable on the re-marriage of a widow, did not enter into the allod of the person to whom it was paid, and followed a line of devolution in which the privileges of the agnateswere neglected.
The assembled agnates then say "We have done everything as we should do, and so our ancestors who have died must take the man who is now dead to their regions.
The agnates and some boys go round the plank three times, and afterwards go to the mound, taking with them the various articles in a cloth.
On the eleventh day, all the agnates bathe, and are touched with ghi (clarified butter) as a sign of purification.
And how did the agnatesof (Bhagiratha furnish the same)?
It will take a long course of time for the ocean to resume its wonted state; the occasion will be furnished by the agnates of the great king Bhagiratha.
For later times also the examples are numerous of the power of agnates to give in marriage.
However, their claim is now well established, and, in default of both sharers and residuaries, they succeed on a plan somewhat resembling that on which male agnatesare classified as residuaries.
Then suppose A to be the son or daughter of B, excluding those who are descendants of A, and as such included in the first class, the remaining male descendants of B will form the second class of male agnates of A.
These are, in ordinary circumstances, the male agnates only, and the rule in question depends upon a classification of the male agnates which is common in other parts of the world.
On failure of the sakulyas we should have to fall back upon the samonadacas, but probably all that can be said with certainty is that the sakulyas and samonadacas between them exhaust entirely the male agnates of the deceased.
But at this point, under the Dayabhaga, instead of exhausting the male agnatesstill further, as we might expect, we turn now to the cognates, i.
One thing is certain, that under the Mitacshara law no cognates (relations through females) are admitted until all the agnates (relations through males) are exhausted.
It will now be convenient to state the rules for finding which of the agnates take as residuaries of the deceased.
Every family consisting of several generations of maleagnates may be broken up into groups, each of which has a separate common ancestor of its own.
In the Hindu law as at present administered there is no primogeniture, and a decided preference of males over females and of agnates over cognates.
The working out of the rule is a little peculiar, but the result is to give a rather wide rule of exclusion of both agnates and cognates.
With descent in the female line, the agnatesare those persons who can trace their descent through females exclusively from the same common ancestor with the intestate; in the other case, who can trace their descent through males exclusively.
The influence of property must have caused the change, that children might participate as agnates in the inheritance of their father's property.
The agnates nearest in degree had the preference; first, the brothers and unmarried sisters; second, the paternal uncles and unmarried aunts of the intestate, and so on until the agnatic relatives were exhausted.
Third, if there were no agnates of the intestate, the same law called the gentiles to the inheritance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agnates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
