When a member of the gens died and a household consequently came to an end, the gentile chief (the English jurists called him capi4t cognationis) made a new division of the whole territory among the remaining households.

• 如果某一氏族成员死亡，因而一户经济不再存在，氏族首领（英国法学家称之为caput cognationis）便把全部土地在其它各户中间进行一次重新分配。