PATRIA POTESTAS
\pˈatɹiə pˈə͡ʊtstəz], \pˈatɹiə pˈəʊtstəz], \p_ˈa_t_ɹ_i__ə p_ˈəʊ_t_s_t_ə_z]\
Definitions of PATRIA POTESTAS
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
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Lat In Roman law. Paternal authority; the paternal power. This term denotes the aggregate of those peculiar powers and rights which, by the civil law of Rome, belonged to the head of a PATRIA POTESTAS 882 PAUPEllIES family in respect to his wife, children, (natural or adopted,) and any more remote de- scendants who sprang from him through males only. Anciently, it was of very extensive 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 under his power. Mackeld. Rom. Law,
By Henry Campbell Black
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