At first, according to mother-right -- so long, therefore, as descent was reckoned only in the female line -- and according to the original custom of inheritance within the gens, the gentile relatives inherited from a deceased fellow member of their gens.
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- 根據母權制,就是說(shuō),當世系還是只按女系計算的時(shí)候,并根據氏族內最初的繼承習慣,氏族成員死亡以后早先是由他的同氏族親屬繼承的。