Patrilocal
1. Describing a custom of marriage by which the married couple settles in the husband’s home or community.
2. The tendency of females to leave their natal group and reside (or mate) with males of a different group.
Similarly …
Matrilocal
1. Describing a custom of marriage by which the married couple settles in the wife’s home or community.
2. The tendency of males to leave their natal group and reside (or mate) with females of a different group.
First used in 1906, the words are from the fields of anthropology, sociology, ethnography and zoology.
For example, zoologically, chimpanzees are patrilocal, whereas many monkey species are matrilocal. Both modes are still found amongst different hunter-gatherer and similar tribes. Human societies are more predominantly patrilocal (although even in more undeveloped societies this is not universal), and is suggested as one of the foundations of the patriarchy and the ownership of women as chattels.
The western world has largely abandoned both modes, although has yet to shake off patriarchy etc.