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  • AGISTOR
    One who takes in horses or other animals to pasture at certain rates. Story, Bailm. s 443.
  • AGNATES
    In the law of descents. Relations by the father. This word is used in the Scotch law, and by some writers as an English word, corresponding with the Latin agnati, (q. v.) Ersk. Inst b. 1, tit 7, S 4.
  • AGNATI
    In Roman law. The term included "all the cognates who trace their connection exclusively through males. A table of cognates is formed by taking each lineal ancestor in turn and including all his descendants of both sexes in the tabular view. If, then, in tracing the various branches of such More...
  • AGNATIC
    [From agnati, q. v.] Derived from or through males. 2 Bl. Comm. 236.
  • AGNATIO
    In the civil law. Relationship on the father's side; agnation. Agnatio a patre est. Inst 3, 5, 4; Id. 3, 6, 6.
  • AGNATION
    Kinship by the father's side. See AGNATES; AGNATI.
  • AGNOMEN
    Lat. An additional name or title; a nickname. A name or title which a man gets by some action or peculiarity; the last of the four names sometimes given a Roman. Thus, Scipio Africanus, (the African,) from his African victories. Ainsworth; Calvin.
  • AGNOMINATION
    A surname; an additional name or title; agnomen.
  • AGNUS DEI
    Lat. Lamb of God. A piece of white wax, in a flat, oval form, like a small cake, stamped with the figure of a lamb, and consecrated by the pope. Cowell.
  • AGRARIAN
    Relating to land, or to a division or distribution of land; as an agrarian law.
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