根据母权制，就是说，当世系还是只按女系计算的时候，并根据氏族内最初的继承习惯，氏族成员死亡以后早先是由他的同氏族亲属继承的。

• 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.