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If two persons are related to each other by blood or adoption not wholly through males, they are called:

Section 3(1)(c) calls persons cognates when their relationship by blood or adoption is not wholly through males. Agnates instead satisfy a wholly male connecting line. The…

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If two persons are related to each other by blood or adoption not wholly through males, they are called:

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Section 3(1)(c) calls persons cognates when their relationship by blood or adoption is not wholly through males. Agnates instead satisfy a wholly male connecting line. The endpoint can be female; it is the connecting relationship that distinguishes the definitions.

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