Agnatic
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.