Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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PATENT AMBIGUITY

PATIBULATED

PATENTEE. He to whom a patent has been granted. The term is usually applied to one who has obtained letters patent for $ new invention. PATER. Lat. A father; the father. In the civil law, this word sometimes included avus, (grandfather.) Dig. 50, 16, 201. Pater is est quern nuptiee demonstrant. The father is he whom the marriage points out 1 Bl. Comm. 446; 7 Mart. (N. S.) 548, 553; Dig. 2, 4, 5; Broom, Max. 516. PATER PATRLS!. Father of the coun try. See PABENS PATBUB. PATERFAMILIAS. The father of a family. In Roman law. The head or master of a family. This word is sometimes employed, in a wide sense, as equivalent to sui juris. A person sui juris is called u paterfamtUa8 n even when un der the age of puberty. In the narrower and more common use, a paterfamilias is any one invested with potestas over any person. It is thus as ap plicable to a grandfather as to a father. Hunter, Rom. Law, 49. PATERNA PATERNIS. Lat. Pater nal estates to paternal heirs. A rule of the French law, signifying that such portion of a decedent's estate as came to him from his father must descend to his heirs on the fa ther's side. PATERNAL. That which belongs to the father or comes from him. PATERNAL POWER. The authority lawfully exercised by parents over their chil dren. This phrase is also used to translate the Latin "patriapotestas," (q. v.) PATERNAL PROPERTY. That which descends or comes to one from his father, grandfather, or other ascendant or collateral on the paternal side of the house. PATERNITY. The fact of being a fa ther; the relationship of a father. The Latin "paternitas" is used in the can on law to denote a kind of spiritual relation ship contracted by baptism. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 1, tit. 10, § 161, note. PATHOLOGY. In medical jurispru dence. The science or doctrine of diseases. That part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, their causes, and their symptoms. PATIBULARY. Belonging to the gal lows. PATIBULATED. Hanged on a gibbet.

PATENT AMBIGUITY. An ambigu ity which arises upon the words of the will, deed, or other instrument, as looked at in themselves, and before they are attempted to be applied to the object or to the subject which they describe. The term is opposed to "la tent ambiguity," (q. v.) PATENT BILL OFFICE. The attor ney general's patent bill office is the office in which were formerly prepared the drafts of all letters patent issued in England, other than those for inventions. The draft patent was called a "bill," and the officer who prepared it was called the "clerk of the patents to the queen's attorney and solicitor general." Sweet. PATENT OF PRECEDENCE. Let ters patent granted, in England, to such bar risters as the crown thinks fit to honor with that mark of distinction, whereby they are entitled to such rank and preaudience as are assigned in their respective patents, which is sometimes next after the attorney general, but more usually next after her majesty's counsel then being. These rank promiscu ously with the king's (or queen's) counsel, but are not the sworn servants of the crown. 3 Bl. Comm. 28; 3 Steph. Comm. 274. PATENT-OFFICE. In the administra tive system of the United States, this is one of the bureaus of the department of the inte rior. It has charge of the issuing of patents to inventors and of such business as is con nected therewith. PATENT-RIGHT. A right secured by patent; usually meaning a right to the ex clusive manufacture and sale of an inven tion or patented article. PATENT-RIGHT DEALER. Anyone whose business it is to sell, or offer for sale, patent-rights. 14 St. at Large, 118. PATENT ROLLS. The official records of royal charters and grants; covering from the reign of King John to recent times. They contain grants of offices and lands, res titutions of temporalities to ecclesiastical persons, confirmations of grants made to bodies corporate, patents of creation of peers, and licenses of all kinds. Hubb. Succ. 617; 32 Phila. Law Lib. 429. PATENT WRIT. In old practice. An open writ; one not closed or sealed up. See CLOSE WRITS. PATEN TABLE. Suitable to be patent ed ; entitled by law to be protected by the is suance of a patent.

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