Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

PATRUUS MAXIMUS

PATIBULUM

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PATRIMONY. A right or estate inner, ited from one's ancestors, particularly from direct male ancestors. FATRINUS. In old ecclesiastical law. A godfather. Spelman. PATRITIUS. An honor conferred on men of the first quality in the time of the English Saxon kings. PATROCINIUM. In Roman law. Pat ronage; protection; defense. The business or duty of a patron or advocate. PATRON. In ecclesiastical law. He who has the right, title, power, or privilege of presenting to an ecclesiastical benefice. In Roman law. The former master of an emancipated slave. In French, marine law. The captain or master of a vessel. PATRONAGE. In English ecclesiastical law. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the same with ad vow son, (q. v.) 2 Bl. Comm. 21. The right of appointing to office, consid ered as a perquisite, or personal right; not in the aspect of a public trust. PATRONATUS. In Roman law. The condition, relation, right, or duty of a pat ron. In ecclesiastical law. Patronage, (q. «.)< Patronum faciunt dos, sedificatio, fundus. Dod. Adv. 7. Endowment, build ing, and land make a patron. PATRONUS. In Roman law. A per son who stood in the relation of protector tc« another who was called his "client." One who advised his client in matters of law, and advocated his causes in court. Gilb. Forum Rom. 25. PATROON. The proprietors of certain manors created in New York in colonial times were so called. PATRUELIS. In the civil law. A cousin-german by the father's side; the son or daughter of a father's brother. Wharton. PATRUUS. An uncle by the father'* side; a father's brother. PATRUUS MAGNUS. A grandfather'* brother; granduncle. PATRUUS MAJOR. A great-grand father's brother. PATRUUS MAXIMUS. A great-grand father's father's brother.

PATIBULUM. In old English law. A gaDows or gibbet. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 3, § 9. PATIENS. Lat. One who suffers or permits; one to whom an act is done; the passive party in a transaction. PATBIA. Lat. The country, neighbor hood, or vicinage; the men of the neighbor hood; a jury of the vicinage. Synonymous, in this sense, with "pais." Patria laboribus et expensis non debet fatigari. A jury ought not to be harassed by labors and expenses. Jenk. Cent. 6. PATBIA POTESTAS. Lat. In Roman law. Paternal authority; the paternal pow er. This term denotes the aggregate of those peculiar powers and rights which, by the civil law of Rome, belonged to the head of a family in respect to his wife, children, (nat ural or adopted,) and any more remote de scendants who sprang from him through males only. Anciently, it was of very ex tensive reach, embracing even the power of life and death, but was gradually curtailed, until finally it amounted to little more than a right in the paterfamilias to hold as his own any property or acquisitions of one un der his power. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 589. Patria potestas in pietate debet, non in atrocitate, consistere. Paternal power should consist [or be exercised] in affection, not in atrocity. PATRIARCH. The chief bishop over several countries or provinces, as an arch bishop is of several dioceses. Godb. 20. PATRICIDE. One who has killed his father. As to the punishment of that offense by the Roman law, see Sandars' Just. Inst. (5th Ed.) 496. PATRICIUS. In the civil law. A title of the highest honor, conferred on those who enjoyed the chief place in the emperor's es teem. PATRIMONIAL. Pertaining to a patri mony; inherited from ancestors, but strict ly from the direct male ancestors. FATRIMONIUM. In the civil law. The private and exclusive ownership or do minion of an individual. Things capable of being possessed by a single person to the ex clusion of all others (or which are actually so possessed) are said to be in patrimonio; it not capable of being so possessed, (or not act ually so possessed,) they are said to be extra patrimonium. See Gaius, bk. 2, § 1.

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