Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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AGISTEBS or GIST TAKERS. Offi cers appointed to look after cattle, etc. See Williams, Common, 232. AGISTMENT. The taking in of another person's cattle to be fed, or to pasture, upon one's own land, in consideration of an agreed price to be paid by the owner. Also the profit or recompense for such pasturing of cattle. There is also agistment of sea-banks, where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea; and terra agistatce are lands whose owners must keep up the sea-banks. Holt house. AGISTOR. One who takes in horses or other animals to pasture at certain rates. Story, Bailm. § 443. AGNATES. In the law of descents. Re lations 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. ©.) Ersk. Inst. b. 1, tit. 7, § 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 a genealogical table or tree, we stop whenever we come to the name of a female, and pursue that particular branch or ramifi cation no further, all who remain after the descendants of women have been excluded are agnates, and their connection together is agnatic relationship." Maine, Anc. Law, 142. All persons are agnatically connected to gether who are under the same patria po testas, or who have been under it, or who might have been under it if their lineal an cestor had lived long enough to exercise his empire. Maine, Anc. Law, 144. The agnate family consisted of all persons, living at the same time, who would have been subject to the patria potestas of a common ancestor, if his life had been con tinued to their time. Hadl. Rom. Law, 131. Between agnati and cognatl there is this differ ence : that, under the name of agnati, cognatl are included, but not e converso; for instance, a fa ther's brother, that is, a paternal uncle, is both ag natu8 and cognatus, but a mother's brother, that Is, a maternal uncle, is a cognatus bat not agnck tut. (Di*. 88, 7, 5, pr.) BurrilL AGNATIC. [From agnati, q. ©.] De rived from or through males. 2 BL Comm.

AGNATIO. In the civil law. Relation ship 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 Afri can,) from his African victories. Ains worth; 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 agra rian law. AGRARIAN LAWS. In Roman law. Laws for the distribution among the people, by public authority, of the lands constituting the public domain, usually territory con quered from an enemy. In common parlance the term is frequently applied to laws which have for their ob ject the more equal division or distributor of landed property; laws for subdividing large properties and increasing the number of landholders. AGRARIUM. A tax upon or tribute payable out of land. AGREAMENTUM. In old English law. Agreement; an agreement. Spelman. AGREE. To concur; to come into harmo ny; to give mutual assent; to unite in men tal action; to exchange promises; to make an agreement. To assent to a thing, or undertake to do it; to promise. 1 Denio, 226, 228, 229. This is a loose and incorrect sense of the term. 5 East, 11. To concur or acquiesce in; to approve or adopt. Agreed, agreed to, are frequently used in the books, (like accord,) to show the concurrence or harmony of cases. Agreed per curiam is a common expression. To harmonize or reconcile. "You will agree your books." 8 Coke, 67. AGREE. In French law. A solicitor practising solely in the tribunals of com merce.

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