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AGIO. In commercial law. A term used to express the difference in point of value between metallic and paper money, or be tween one sort of metallic money and an other. McCul. Diet AGIOTAGE. A speculation on the rise and fall of the public debt of states, or the public funds. The speculator is called "ag ioteur." AGIST. In ancient law. To take In and feed the cattle of strangers in the king's forest, and to collect the money due for the same to the king's use. Spelman; Cowell. In modern law. To take in cattle to feed, or pasture, at a certain rate of compen sation. See AGISTMENT. AGISTATIO ANIMAMUM IX FOR ESTA. The drift or numbering of cattle in the forest AGISTERS, 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. Bass v. Pierce, 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 595; Williams v. Miller, 68 Cal. 290, 9 Pac. 166; Auld v. Travis, 5 Colo. App. 535, 39 Pac. 357. There is also agistment of sea-banks, where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea; and terras 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. v.) Ersk. Inst. b. 1, tit 7, § 4. AGNATI. In Roman law. The term in cluded "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 branch es of such a genealogical table or tree, we stop whenever we come to the name of a female, and pursue that particular branch or ramification 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.

who have been under it, or who might have been under it if their lineal ancestor 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 td the patria potestas of a common an cestor, if his life had been continued to their time. Hadl. Rom. Law, 131. Between agnati and cognati there is this dif ference: that, under the name of agnati, cog nati are included, but not e converso; for in stance, a father's brother, that is, a paternal uncle, is both agnatus and cognatus, but a mother's brother, that is, a maternal uncle, is a cognatus but not agnatus. (Dig. 38, 7, 5, pr.) BurrilL AGNATIC. [From agnati, q. «.] De rived from or through males. 2 Bl. Comm. 236. AGNATIC 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. Ainsworth; Calvin: AGNOMINATION. A surname; an ad ditional 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 distribution of landed property; laws for subdividing large properties and increasing the number of landholders. AGRARITTM. A tax upon or tribute pay able 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 concur or acquiesce in; to approve or

All persons are agnatically connected togeth er who are under the same patria potestas, or