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  • PATRICIUS
    In the civil law. A title of the highest honor, conferred on those who enjoyed the chief place in the emperor's esteem.
  • PATRIMONIAL
    Pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors, but strictly 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 possessed) are said to be in patrimonio; if not capable of being so possessed, More...
  • PATRIMONY
    A right or estate inherited 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 flrst quality in the tune of the English Saxon kings.
  • PATROCINIUM
    In Roman law. Patronage; 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 patrolman being generally a private in the ranks, as distinguished from roundsmen, sergeants, lieutenants, etc. See State v. Wal-brldge, 153 Mo. More...
  • PATRON
    In ecclesiastieal 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 advowson, (q. v.) 2 Bl. Comm. 21. The right of appointing to office, considered as a perquisite, or personal right; not in the aspect of a public trust
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