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Patron
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Patroneccles. law. He who has the disposition and gift of an ecclesiastical benefice. In the Roman law it signified the former master of a freedman.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Disposition
French law. This word has several accept-ations; sometimes it signifies the effective marks of the will of some person; and at others the instrument containing those marks.
Gift
1) Conveyancing. A voluntary conveyance; that is, a conveyance not founded on the consideration of money or blood. The word denotes rather the motive of the conveyance; so that a feoffment or grant may be called a gift when gratuitous. A gift is of the same nature as a settlement; neither denotes a form of assurance, but the nature of the transaction. 2) Contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same, from himself to another person who accepts it, without any consideration. It differs from a grant, sale, or barter in this, that in each of these cases there must be a consideration, and a gift, as the definitionstates, must be without consideration.
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Master
"This word has several meanings. 1) Master is one who has control over a servant or apprentice. A master stands in relation to his apprentices, in loco parentis, and is bound to fulfil that relation, which the law generally enforces. He is also entitled to be obeyed by his apprentices, as if they were his children. 2) Master is one who is employed in teaching children, known generally as a schoolmaster; as to his powers 3) Master is the name of an officer: as, the ship Benjamin Franklin, whereof A B is master; the master of the rolls; master in chancery, &c .4) By master is also understood a principal who employs another to perform some act or do something for him. The law having adopted the maxim of the civil law, qui facit per alium facit per se; the agent is but an instrument, and the master is civilly responsible for the act of his agent, as if it were his own, when he either commands him to do an act, or puts him in a condition, of which such act is a result, or by the absence of due care and control, either previously in the choice of his agent, or immediately in the act itself, negligently suffers him to do an injury.
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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.
Patrimonium
Civil law. That which is capable, of being inherited.
Patrimony
Patrimony is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property but its more limited signification , includes only such estate, as has descended in the same family and in a still more confined sense, it is only that which has descended or been devised in a direct line from the father, and by extension, from the mother, or other ancestor.
Patrinus
A godfather.
Patriot Act
The "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act" of 2001 was adopted by the US Senate on the 24th of October of the said year as a result of 9/11.
Patronage
The right of appointing to office; as the patronage of the president of the United States, if abused, may endanger the liberties of the people.
Patronus
Roman civil law. This word is a modification of the, Latin word pater, father; a denomination applied by Romulus to the first, senators of Rome, and which they always afterwards bore. Romulus at first appointed a hundred of them. Seven years afterwards, in consequence of the association of Tatius to the Romans, a hundred more were appointed, chosen from the Sabines.
Patruelis
Civil law. A cousin german by the father's side; the son or daughter of a father's brother.
Patruus
Civil law. An uncle by the father's side, a father's brother. Patruus magnus, is a grandfather's brother, grand uncle. Patruus major, is a great-grandfather's brother. Patruus maximus, is a, great-grandfather's father's brother.
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Patricide
One guilty of killing his father.
Patrimonial
A thing, which comes from the father, and by extension, from the mother or other ancestor.
Patrimonium
Civil law. That which is capable, of being inherited.
Patrimony
Patrimony is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property but its more limited signification , includes only such estate, as has descended in the same family and in a still more confined sense, it is only that which has descended or been devised in a direct line from the father, and by extension, from the mother, or other ancestor.
Patrinus
A godfather.
Patron
Patronage
The right of appointing to office; as the patronage of the president of the United States, if abused, may endanger the liberties of the people.
Patronus
Roman civil law. This word is a modification of the, Latin word pater, father; a denomination applied by Romulus to the first, senators of Rome, and which they always afterwards bore. Romulus at first appointed a hundred of them. Seven years afterwards, in consequence of the association of Tatius to the Romans, a hundred more were appointed, chosen from the Sabines.
Patruelis
Civil law. A cousin german by the father's side; the son or daughter of a father's brother.
Patruus
Civil law. An uncle by the father's side, a father's brother. Patruus magnus, is a grandfather's brother, grand uncle. Patruus major, is a great-grandfather's brother. Patruus maximus, is a, great-grandfather's father's brother.
Pauper
One so poor that he must be supported at the public expense.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Disposition
French law. This word has several accept-ations; sometimes it signifies the effective marks of the will of some person; and at others the instrument containing those marks.
Gift
1) Conveyancing. A voluntary conveyance; that is, a conveyance not founded on the consideration of money or blood. The word denotes rather the motive of the conveyance; so that a feoffment or grant may be called a gift when gratuitous. A gift is of the same nature as a settlement; neither denotes a form of assurance, but the nature of the transaction. 2) Contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same, from himself to another person who accepts it, without any consideration. It differs from a grant, sale, or barter in this, that in each of these cases there must be a consideration, and a gift, as the definitionstates, must be without consideration.
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Master
"This word has several meanings. 1) Master is one who has control over a servant or apprentice. A master stands in relation to his apprentices, in loco parentis, and is bound to fulfil that relation, which the law generally enforces. He is also entitled to be obeyed by his apprentices, as if they were his children. 2) Master is one who is employed in teaching children, known generally as a schoolmaster; as to his powers 3) Master is the name of an officer: as, the ship Benjamin Franklin, whereof A B is master; the master of the rolls; master in chancery, &c .4) By master is also understood a principal who employs another to perform some act or do something for him. The law having adopted the maxim of the civil law, qui facit per alium facit per se; the agent is but an instrument, and the master is civilly responsible for the act of his agent, as if it were his own, when he either commands him to do an act, or puts him in a condition, of which such act is a result, or by the absence of due care and control, either previously in the choice of his agent, or immediately in the act itself, negligently suffers him to do an injury.
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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.
Patrimonium
Civil law. That which is capable, of being inherited.
Patrimony
Patrimony is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property but its more limited signification , includes only such estate, as has descended in the same family and in a still more confined sense, it is only that which has descended or been devised in a direct line from the father, and by extension, from the mother, or other ancestor.
Patrinus
A godfather.
Patriot Act
The "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act" of 2001 was adopted by the US Senate on the 24th of October of the said year as a result of 9/11.
Patronage
The right of appointing to office; as the patronage of the president of the United States, if abused, may endanger the liberties of the people.
Patronus
Roman civil law. This word is a modification of the, Latin word pater, father; a denomination applied by Romulus to the first, senators of Rome, and which they always afterwards bore. Romulus at first appointed a hundred of them. Seven years afterwards, in consequence of the association of Tatius to the Romans, a hundred more were appointed, chosen from the Sabines.
Patruelis
Civil law. A cousin german by the father's side; the son or daughter of a father's brother.
Patruus
Civil law. An uncle by the father's side, a father's brother. Patruus magnus, is a grandfather's brother, grand uncle. Patruus major, is a great-grandfather's brother. Patruus maximus, is a, great-grandfather's father's brother.
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Patricide
One guilty of killing his father.
Patrimonial
A thing, which comes from the father, and by extension, from the mother or other ancestor.
Patrimonium
Civil law. That which is capable, of being inherited.
Patrimony
Patrimony is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property but its more limited signification , includes only such estate, as has descended in the same family and in a still more confined sense, it is only that which has descended or been devised in a direct line from the father, and by extension, from the mother, or other ancestor.
Patrinus
A godfather.
Patron
Patronage
The right of appointing to office; as the patronage of the president of the United States, if abused, may endanger the liberties of the people.
Patronus
Roman civil law. This word is a modification of the, Latin word pater, father; a denomination applied by Romulus to the first, senators of Rome, and which they always afterwards bore. Romulus at first appointed a hundred of them. Seven years afterwards, in consequence of the association of Tatius to the Romans, a hundred more were appointed, chosen from the Sabines.
Patruelis
Civil law. A cousin german by the father's side; the son or daughter of a father's brother.
Patruus
Civil law. An uncle by the father's side, a father's brother. Patruus magnus, is a grandfather's brother, grand uncle. Patruus major, is a great-grandfather's brother. Patruus maximus, is a, great-grandfather's father's brother.
Pauper
One so poor that he must be supported at the public expense.
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