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parens patriae [Latin, parent of the country] : the state in its capacity as the legal guardian of persons not sui juris and without natural guardians, as the heir to persons without natural heirs, and as the protector of all citizens unable to protect themselves [because the State is supposed to proceed in respect of the child as parens patriae and not as adversary "Kent v. United States, 383 U.S. 541 (1966)"] ...
Parens patriae
Parens patriae, means the State in its capacity as the legal guardian of persons not sui juris and without natural guardians as the heirs to persons without natural heirs, and as the protector of all citizens unable to protect themselves, Kent v. United States, 383 US 541 (1966).The sovereign, as parens patri', has a kind of guardianship over various classes of persons, who, from their legal disability, stand in need of protection, such as infants, idiots, and lunatics....
Patria potestas
Patria potestas, paternal power, Civ. Law. For the extent of this great power, see Sand. Just.; Maine's Ancient Law. The modes in which the patria potestas was ended were: (1) The death of the father; (2) the father or son suffering loss of freedom or citizenship; (3) the son attaining certain dignities; (4) emancipation....
Bona patria
Bona patria, an assize of countrymen or good neighbours; it is sometimes called assiza bon' patri', when 12 or more men are chosen out of any part of the county to pass upon an assize. The persons composing it are called juratores, because they are to swear judicially in the presence of the party, etc., according to the practice of Scotland, Skene....
Patria
Patria, the country; the men or jury of a neighbourhood....
Patria laboribus et expensis non debet fatigari
Patria laboribus et expensis non debet fatigari [Lat.], a jury ought not to be fatigued by labours and expenses....
parentela
parentela [Late Latin, from Latin parent- parens parent + -ela (as in clientela clientele)] : the line of blood relatives : the kin of a person by descent par·en·te·lic [-lik] adj ...
Parenticide
Parenticide [fr. parens Lat., a father, and c'do, to kill], one who murders a parent....
Emancipation
Emancipation. A solemn act by which a pater-familias divests himself of his power over his filius-familias, so that the filus-familias may become sui juris. There are three forms of emancipatio: (1) The old emancipation, which was by several man-cipationes, followed by several enfranchisements. The man-icipatio, or solemn sale, destroyed the patria potestas and put the filius familias in mancipio, which was a kind of slavery. The enfranchisement by the purchaser made the filius-familias sui juris. As the enfranchiser acquired all rights of patronage, the father, on occasion of the last mancipatio, added the trust-clause (fiducia contracta), i.e., an express condition that the purchaser should remancipate the filius-familias to the pater-familias, so that having ceased to be a pater-familias, and being only an ordinary purchaser, he might enfranchise his child, and so acquire the rights of patronage.(2) The Anastasian emancipation, introduced by Anastasius. It consisted in obtaining an ...
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