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Paternity




Paternity

The state or condition of a father.

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State
1) Government. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one community for the defence of their rights, and to do right and justice to foreigners. In this sense, the state means the whole people united into one body politic; and the state, and the people of the state, are equivalent expressions. 2) Condition of persons. This word has various acceptations. If we inquire into its origin, it will be found to come from the Latin status, which is derived from the verb stare, sto, whence has been made statio, which signifies the place where a person is located, stat, to fulfil the obligations which are imposed upon him.

Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.

Father
Domestic relations. He by whom a child is begotten.



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Patent
1) Constrction. That which is open or manifest. 2) Contracts. A patent for an invention is a giant made by the government of the United States to the inventor of any new or useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter not known or used by others before his or their discovery or invention thereof, and not, at the time of his application for a patent, in public use or on sale, with his consent or allowance, as the inventor or discoverer; securing to him for a limited time, therein expressed, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, the said invention or discovery, on certain conditions, among which is the one of at once giving up his secret and making public his discovery or invention, and the manner of making and using the same, so that at the expiration of his privilege, it may become public property.

Patent and trademark office
The federal agency which examines and issues patents and registers trademarks.

Patent french
The following points in relation to the patent laws of France will be found useful to those who have invented valuable machinery, and who are desirous of availing themselves of the patent laws of that country: -

Patent laws of great britain and ireland
The patent laws of Great Britain and Ireland will be briefly considered by taking a view of the persons to whom patents will be granted; the different kinds of patents; the time for which they are granted; and the expenses attending them.

Patent lawsuit
A lawsuit filed by or against a patent registration company or having to do with patent and trademark disputes.

Patent roman
The Roman patents will be considered by taking a view of the persons to whom they may be granted; the different kinds of patents; the cost of a patent; and the obligations of thepatentee.

Patent, prussian
This subject will be considered by taking a view of the persons who may obtain patents; the nature of the patent; and the duration of the right.

Patent-office
An office bearing this name was established by law, and by the act Of congress of July 4, 1836, which repeals all acts theretofore passed in relation to patents.

Patentee
He to whom a patent has been granted. The term is usually applied to one who has obtained letters-patent for a new invention.

Pater
Father. A term used in making genealogical tables.

Pater familias
Civil law. One who was sui juris and consequently was not either under parental power, nor under that of a master; a child in his cradle, therefore, could have been pater familias, if he had neither a master nor a father.

Paterna paternis
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession, the property coming from the father of the deceased, descends to his paternal relations.

Paternal
That which belongs to the father or comes from him: as, paternal power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line.

Paternal power
Patria potestas, The, authority lawfully exercised by parents, over their children. It will be proper to consider

Paternal property
That which descends or comes from the father and other ascendants, or collaterals of the paternal stock



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Pater familias
Civil law. One who was sui juris and consequently was not either under parental power, nor under that of a master; a child in his cradle, therefore, could have been pater familias, if he had neither a master nor a father.

Paterna paternis
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession, the property coming from the father of the deceased, descends to his paternal relations.

Paternal
That which belongs to the father or comes from him: as, paternal power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line.

Paternal power
Patria potestas, The, authority lawfully exercised by parents, over their children. It will be proper to consider

Paternal property
That which descends or comes from the father and other ascendants, or collaterals of the paternal stock

Paternity

Pathology
med. jur. The science or doctrine of diseases. In cases of homicides, abortions, and the like, it is of great consequence to the legal practitioner to be acquainted, in some degree, with pathology.

Patria
The country; the men of the neighborhood competent to serve on a jury; a jury. This word is nearly synonymous with pais.

Patria potestas
Civil law. Paternal power, the authority which is lawfully exercised by the father over his children.

Patricide
One guilty of killing his father.

Patrimonial
A thing, which comes from the father, and by extension, from the mother or other ancestor.

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