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Patria potestas

Patria potestas, paternal power, Civ. Law. For the extent of this great power,

the head of the house hold over persons under his paternal power and over his slaves. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,

treated of; after which is shown the manner of acquiring paternal power--viz., by marriage, legitimation, and adoption, and how that power

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described by Steingass at page 1343 as 'hereditary, possessed by paternal succession'. The words 'Moris' is a root of Moroos which

paterna.--(A brother shall not succeed a uterine brother in the paternal inheritance.) The maxim is now superseded; for by the Inheritance

Amita, a paternal aunt; the sister of one's father

An agnate is related by generation; thus, my son, brother, paternal uncle, and their children, as also my daughter and sister,

The line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family

a family one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right usually applied to heads of families in ancient history

In a paternal manner

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Patria potestas, paternal power, Civ. Law. For the extent of this great power,

the head of the house hold over persons under his paternal power and over his slaves. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,

treated of; after which is shown the manner of acquiring paternal power--viz., by marriage, legitimation, and adoption, and how that power

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