There were tribes where the basis of kinship was agnate, but these were the exceptions.
2
In Korea, for instance, he can only adopt an agnate and one of a lower generation than his own.
3
But persons related only by blood through females are not agnates, but merely cognates.
4
At Le Locle, in the Jura, he wrote Agnate and the Merman; and in October 1834 he arrived in Rome.
5
In default of a testamentary guardian, the statute of the Twelve Tables assigns the guardianship to the nearest agnates, who are hence called statutory guardians.