He believed that Seton had been an important name in his paternal line.

The system of Norwegian inheritance was based on a paternal line.

Thus the two families cannot share a paternal line.

I wonder who decided the imperial family should follow a paternal line anyway.

To become a king, a prince must be able to trace royal descent both on his paternal and maternal line.

In this case, it means a woman who can trace royal descent from both her paternal and maternal line.

The genetic tests done on direct paternal or maternal line evaluate only a few ancestors among many.

His paternal line had been raised to the ranks of the Bohemian nobility for its services to the state.

There is no distinction between the maternal and paternal line.

The name Hitler appears in the maternal as well as the paternal line.