Patrilineality

Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side[1] or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related through male kin. This is sometimes distinguished from cognate[2] kinship, through the mother's lineage, also called the spindle side or the distaff side.

A patriline ("father line") is a person's father, and additional ancestors, as traced only through males.

  1. ^ "spear side". Dictionary.com.
  2. ^ "Cognate Definition & Meaning". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2022-05-13.