agnate

This may be either by a bequest or else as an agnate on intestate succession.

Here the intestate heir is again the nearest agnate, who is in this case a brother.

In law, the term consanguine is used in place of agnate.

Due to this principle, any agnate of the king, however distant his relationship with the monarch, is a potential successor to the crown.

An agnate is one's genetic relative, male or female, exclusively through male ancestors.

An agnate is a kinsman with whom one has a common ancestor by descent in unbroken male line.

This effectively meant that the Grand Duke himself was then the only surviving agnate of the House.

Additionally, divorce was enforced when the woman had to produce heirs for a deceased relative because she would then marry an agnate of that dead relative.

Also, in Germany in many ducal families every agnate would bear the ducal title of the family as a courtesy title.

"According to customary law, it is tantamount to adultery for a widow to be sexually involved with a man other than a close agnate of her late husband."

Alternatively, the famlity could ignore the primogenture decision and allowed the next agnate, Philip the Elder, to marry.

The closest male agnate at the time was William Clito, but instead of naming a successor, Henry turned his attention to fathering another child.

One's agnate may be male or female provided that the kinship is calculated patrilineally; i.e., only through males back to a common ancestor.

Since a woman can have no sui heredes, the intestate heir will be the nearest agnate, who is in this case her sister and coheir.

Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, also senior agnate of the House of Wettin.

Thus does the vast emporium of words begin to display itself, through acatalectic and adhesion, via agnate and allumine, to animal, answer, and, finally, to ant.

And generally, to an experienced (but not too elderly) agnate of the clan, which basically favored seniority until lifespans grew longer, even to feebleness and infirmity, in average.

Because William was the last agnate of the House of Nassau, he had Marie-Adelaide confirmed and proclaimed heir presumptive on 10 July 1907.

It may be significant that Galen lived at about the same time (129 - 199/217 AD) that Roman law changed from the agnate to the cognate system of relationships.

Rather, the female who is nearest in kinship to the last male monarch of the family inherits, even if another female agnate of the dynasty is senior by primogeniture.

Presuming they were from an unbroken male line, the seventh Lord FitWalter was the last agnate of the House of Dukes of Normandy.

Adoption was possible and a much used way to increase the number of succession-entitled heirs (however, the adopted child had to be a child of another member agnate of the imperial house).

He never managed to govern the Kingdom of Hungary, where an agnate of the Árpád dynasty, his cousin Andrew III of Hungary actually ruled that period.

Moreover, if a woman was widowed, an adult son or the closest agnate of her deceased husband became her guardian and neither her nor her children were entitled to her husbands wealth.

Darnley was his wife's first cousin through Margaret Tudor, putting both Mary and Darnley high in the line of succession for the English throne, and also her agnate.

"The uncle you mentioned, he's not of agnate kindred?"

"Not the agnate line," the judge murmured, noting that on his printout, then signaled to the clerk.

Those that share the same father (but different mothers) are known as an agnate sibling, or a paternal half-brother/sister.

Skandagupta died in 467 and was succeeded by his agnate brother Purugupta.

Later it is revealed that they are agnate half-siblings and they suffer from hereditary angioedema inherited from their father.

Brutus inherited in accordance with the mos maiorum; he was Caepio's closest agnate male relative.

(Y-chromosomal DNA, paternally inherited, is used in an analogous way to trace the agnate lineage.)

Two agnate half-siblings, John and Elizabeth, resulted from their father's marriage to Elizabeth Bourn, following Jane's death.

Herbert "Herb" Powell, voiced by Danny DeVito, is Homer's agnate half brother.

Under no circumstances could she be designated the main heir, even if the only child of her father; his nearest agnate relatives (that is, on the father's side) superseded her.

These clans are further sub-divided into das dinia and teen dinia, being close and distant agnate groups who share in the birth and death rituals.

The largest social unit for Fijians is the Yavusa, defined by R.A. Derrick as the "direct agnate descendants of a single kalou-vu" (deified ancestor).

The leading contenders for power at this time were Hong Taiji's oldest son Hooge and Hong Taiji's agnate half brother Dorgon.

At the request of the governor of the Netherlands, the Duke of Alba, she was granted a pension by King Philip II of Spain (her oldest son's agnate half-brother).

In one version of the Mahabharata, the king Chandravarma Kamboja is substituted with Chandravarma Risika which seems to endorse the view that the Kambojas and Rishikas were allied or cognate/or agnate people and one may have been a branch of the other.