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Cognation   Listen
noun
Cognation  n.  
1.
Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. "As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam."
2.
Participation of the same nature. "A like temper and cognation."
3.
(Law) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; used in distinction from agnation.





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... of any kind ordinarily extinguishes rights by agnation, for agnation is a title of civil law. Not every kind of loss of status, however, affects rights by cognation; because civil changes cannot affect rights annexed to a natural title to the same extent that they can affect those annexed to a ...
— The Institutes of Justinian • Caesar Flavius Justinian


Words linked to "Cognation" :   matrilineage, consanguinity, family relationship, kinship, relationship, affinity


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