KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

PATRIA POTESTAS

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(C. C.) 97 Fed. 605; Minnesota v. Barber, 136 U. S. 313, 10 Sup. Ct 862, 34 L. Ed. 455; Pegram v. American Alkali Co. (C. C.) 122 Fed. 1000. —Patent bill office. The attorney general's patent bill office is the office in which were for merly prepared the drafts of all letters patent issued in England, other than those for inven tions. 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 solic itor general." Sweet.— Patent of precedence. Letters patent granted, in England, to such bar risters as the crown thinks fit to honor with that mark of distinction, whereby they are en titled to such rank and preaudience as are as signed in their respective patents, which is some times next after the attorney general, but more usually next after her majesty's counsel then be ing. These rank promiscuously with the king's (or queen's) counsel, but are not the sworn serv ants of the crown. 3 Bl. Comm. 28; 3 Steph. Comm. 274.— Patent-office. In the adminis trative system of the United States, this is one of the bureaus of the department of the interior. It has charge of the issuing of patents to inven tors and of such business as is connected there with.— Patent-right. A right secured by pa tent; usually meaning a right to the exclusive ' manufacture and sale of an invention or patent ed article. Avery v. Wilson (O. C.) 20 Fed. 856; Crown Cork & Seal Co. v. State, 87 Md. 687, 40 Atl. 1074, 53 L. R. A. 417; Com. v. Central, etc., Tel. Co., 145 Pa. 121, 22 Atl. 841, 27 Am. St. Rep. 677.— Patent-right dealer. Any one whose business it is to sell, or offer for sale, patent-rights. 14 St. at Large, 118.— Pat ent rolls. The official records of royal char ters and grants; covering from the reign of King John to recent times. They contain grants of offices and lands, restitutions 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.— Pioneer pat ent. A patent for an invention covering a func tion never before performed, or a wholly novel device, or one of such novelty and importance as to mark a distinct step in the progress of the art, as distinguished from a mere improvement or perfecting of what has gone before. West inghouse v. Boyden Power-Brake Co., 170 U. S. 537, 18 Sup. Ct. 707, 42 L. Ed. 1136. Suitable to be patented; entitled by law to be protected by the issu ance of a patent. Heath Cycle Co. v. Hay (C. C.) 67 Fed. 246; Maier v. Bloom (C: C.) 95 Fed. 166; Boyd v. Cherry (C. C.) 50 Fed. 282; Providence Rubber Co. v. Goodyear, 9 Wall. 796, 19 L. Ed. 566. He to whom a patent has been granted. The term is usually applied to one who has obtained letters patent for a new invention. Lat. A father; the father. In the civil law, this word sometimes included avu8, (grandfather.) Dig. 50, 16, 201. —Pater patriae. Father of the country. See PAEENS PATBLS:. Pater is est quern nnptiee dexnonstrant. The father is he whom the marriage points out. 1 Bl. Comm. 446; Tate v. Penne, 7 Mart (N. S. La.) 548, 553; Dig. 2, 4, 5; Broom, Max. 516. BL.LAW DTCT.(2D ED.)—56 PATENTABLE. PATENTEE. PATER.

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 "paterfamilias" even when under the age of puberty. In the narrower and more common use, a paterfamilias is any one invest ed with potestas over any person. It is thus as applicable to a grandfather as to a father. Hunter, Rom. Law, 49. 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. PATERNA PATERNIS. Lat. father or comes from him. —Paternal power. The authority lawfully exercised by parents over their children. This phrase is also used to translate the Latin "pa tria potestas," (q. v.)— Paternal property. That which descends or comes to one from his father, grandfather, or other ascendant or col lateral on the paternal side of the house. 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. See Bacon v. U. S. Mut Ace. Ass'n, 123 N. Y. 304, 25 N. E. 399, 9 L. R. A. 617, 20 Am. St. Rep. 748. gallows or gibbet. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 3, § 9. PATIENS. Lat One who suffers or per mits; one to whom an act is done; the pas sive party in a transaction. 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 laboribns et expensis non debet fatigari . A jury ought not to be harassed by labors and expenses. Jenk. Cent. 6. PATRIA POTESTAS. Lat In Roman law. Paternal authority; the paternal pow er. This term flenotes the aggregate of those peculiar powers and rights which, by the civil law of Rome, belonged to the head of a PATRIA. PATERNAL. That which belongs to the PATERNITY. The fact of being a fa PATIBULARY. Belonging to the gal lows. PATIBUXATED. Hanged on a gibbet. PATIBULUM. In old English law. A