KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PATRIA POTESTAS

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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 poteatas 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. PATRICIT7S. 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. PATRIMONIUM. In the civil law. The private and exclusive ownership or dominion of an individual. Things capable of being possessed by a single person to the exclusion of all others (or which are actually so pos sessed) are said to be in patrimonii; if not capable of being so possessed, (or not act ually so possessed,) they are said to be extra patrimonium. See Gaius, bk. 2, § 1. PATRIMONY. A right or estate inher ited from one's ancestors, particularly from direct male ancestors. PATRINUS. 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. PATROGINIT7M. In Roman law. Pat ronage; protection; defense. The business or duty of .a patron or advocate. PATROLMAN. A policeman assigned to duty in patrolling a certain beat or district; also the designation of a grade or rank in the organized police force of large cities, a pa trolman being generally a private in the ranks, as distinguished from roundsmen, ser geants, lieutenants, etc. See State v. Wal bridge, 153 Mo. 194, 54 S. W. 447.

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 vowson, (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. Lat In Roman law. The condition, relation, right or duty of a patron. In ecclesiastical law. Patronage, (q. v.) Patronum facinnt dos, sedincatio, fundus. Dod. Adv. 7. Endowment, build ing, and land make a patron. PATRONTJS. Lat. In Roman law. A person who stood in the relation of protector to 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. Lat In the civil law. A cousin-german by the father's side; the son or daughter of a father's brother. Wharton. PATRUUS. Lat An uncle by the fa ther's side; a father's brother. —Patruus magnus. A grandfather's brother; granduncle.—Patruus major. A great-grand father's brother.—Patruus maximus. A great-grandfather's father's brother. PAUPER. A person so poor that he must be supported at public expense; also a suitor who, on account of poverty, is allowed to sue or defend without being chargeable with costs. In re Hoffen's Estate, 70 Wis. 522, 36 N. W. 407; Hutchings v. Thompson, 10 Cush. (Mass.) 238; Charleston v. Groveland, 15 Gray (Mass.) 15; Lee County v. Lackie, 30 Ark. 764. —Dispauper. To deprive one of the status of a pauper and of any benefits incidental thereto: particularly, to take away the right to sue in forma pauperis because the person so suing, dur ing the progress of the suit, has acquired money or property which would enable him to sustain the costs of the action. In Roman law. Damage or injury done by an irrational ani mal, without active fault on the" part of the owner, but for which the latter was bound PAUPERIES. Lat