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Q.1
Q. 1 Answer in two sentences.
Any 6 · , any 6 of 8 12 Marks
1.State the difference between agnates and cognates.[2]
Answer
Both terms are defined in section 3 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, and the difference is whether the line of relationship passes only through males.
Agnate, section 3(1)(a). One person is an agnate of another if the two are related by blood or adoption wholly through males. A father's father's son, that is a paternal uncle, and a son's son's son are agnates.
Cognate, section 3(1)(c). One person is a cognate of another if the two are related by blood or adoption but not wholly through males. A sister's son, a mother's brother and a daughter's daughter's son are cognates, because at least one link in the chain is a woman.
Two points that go with the definitions.
Neither term depends on sex. A woman may be an agnate, as a father's father's daughter is, provided every intervening link is male. What matters is the line, not the claimant.
They rank differently. Section 8 gives a male Hindu's property to Class I heirs, then Class II heirs, then agnates, and only then cognates. Section 12 orders them by degrees of ascent and then of descent, and section 13 counts those degrees from the intestate, who is himself the first degree.
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