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Patriliny

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Patriliny 

the tracing of descent, kinship relations, and inheritance through the paternal line. Patriliny is one of the characteristics of a patrilineal clan system. Historically, patriliny succeeds matriliny or sometimes a bilateral system, which can serve as a form of transition from matriliny to patriliny. Patriliny has been preserved to the present time.
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Patriliny and patrilocality are the key features of such a system.
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Pious bequests plummeted, giving way to the earthly concerns of patriliny throughout the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
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