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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Derived from or through males.

2 Bl. Comm. 236.

Especially spoken of the children of a free father and slave mother. The rule in such cases was agnatio sequitur ventrem. Du Cange.