This is the patrilineal relationship.

Land inheritance and ownership in customary sense is both patrilineal and matrilineal.

16.18 In a patrilineal society, it is the man who has the rights to the children.

In the lineage system that exists in the country (patrilineal and matrilineal) the character of assumed gender is similar.

There are, however, patrilineal systems where all sons share inheritance rights, with the first born having the bigger share.

The Civil Code, particularly the Family Law that safeguards the ideal of a society based on patrilineal family unity, regulates the marriage.

Testimonies from the Pacific Regional Consultation, for example, highlighted the dominance of customary laws and practices over constitutional guarantees of equality, within both matrilineal and patrilineal societies.

At birth an individual acquired specific rights through both the mother and father, usually with an emphasis on one side or the other, depending on whether the society was matrilineal or patrilineal.

Participation of women, however, is limited in the traditionally male domain such as the nakamal' and how the are able to participate depends on the matrilineal or patrilineal nature of the society.

They prefer to invest in boys arguing that these shall secure the continuity of lineage, while girls (it goes) once married leave their own family lineages to adopt the patrilineal ones, for example.

Through DNA tests (as aired on the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives ), Tucker's patrilineal ancestry was traced back to the Ambundu ethnic group of Angola and one line of his mother's to the Bamileke of Cameroon.

However, while the emphasis was on the acquisition of primary rights through a single matrilineal or patrilineal kin group, an individual was in fact linked by birth and marriage to one or more groups through which additional rights to land could be obtained.

It is clear from reading Legislative Decree No. 276 of 1969, which regulates the Syrian Nationality Act, that the Syrian legislature has adopted the principle of patrilineal jus sanguinis, or, in other words, birth to a father who enjoys the nationality of the Syrian Arab Republic.

Differences may exist in two situations concerning the male family member who allows the access of his woman counterpart to have access to land (husband or uncle), and concerning the ownership of children in the patrilineal system, children belong to the father and in the matrilineal one they belong to the woman.

In patrilineal societies, problems appear in case of divorce or death of a husband, where a woman runs the risk to lose her land and all her belongings in favor of other members of her late husband's family, even where she has the responsibility to look after her offspring's and other relatives.