Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

agnatio

[latin] roman law. a relationship extended to a person through males only; an affiliation of free persons of either sex in the power (patria potestas) of the senior living male or of a male who would be in his power if he were living. 0 an agnatic relationship could be created either by adoption or by a blood relationship (cognatio) traced solely through the male side of a family. see cognatio; patria potestas under potestas.