agnatic , also: agnatical

Another reason is the relationship between cousin marriage and agnatic solidarity.

All other agnatic lines of the old family are presumed extinct even earlier.

From 1853 until 1953, the crown passed according to agnatic primogeniture.

It is also known as the agnatic perspective.

The children of this union were legally members of the husband's agnatic kin.

The law of succession of the family is agnatic primogeniture.

He was the first male member of his agnatic house to rise to great prominence in his country.

Lands belonged to the entire clan or house, which was a composition of agnatic relatives.

Agnatic primogeniture still applies to those born before 1971.

The prince became heir to his father due to the principle of agnatic primogeniture.

Contrast agnatic primogeniture, where the king's sons stand higher in succession than his brothers.

It follows agnatic seniority, but a prince may be surpassed or another elevated.

It has been non-primogenitural, more or less agnatic, based mostly on rotation.

Agnatic seniority tends to favour boys who are born to fathers in their old age.

Agnatic seniority and the rota system has been used in several historical monarchies.

At least after continuing in cognatic lines, not agnatic.

The agnatic and cognatic kinship lines are at odds with each other.

In fact, neither an agnatic (patrilineal) nor a marital connection between the two houses has been established.

From the late Republic onward, a woman who inherited a share equal with her brothers would have been independent of agnatic control.

The title is hereditary and descends to the senior male by agnatic primogeniture.

This overruled the agnatic succession apparently prevailing before this time for the title.

In seven of the Malay states, succession order is generally determined roughly by agnatic primogeniture.

In the early Roman Republic, inheritance could only occur within the family, and was therefore purely agnatic.

Tension exists between the agnatic and cognatic perspectives of kinship.

Agnatic seniority essentially excludes females of the dynasty and their descendants from the succession.