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[pa-truh-moh-nee] 
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Patrimony
[pa-truh-moh-nee]
Patrimony may refer to:
- Property or other legal entitlements inherited from (or through) one's father, especially if it has been handed down through generations in the same family, birthright.
- The sum total of all personal and real entitlements, including movable and immovable property, belonging to a real person or a moral person.
- the envelop that contains all of a person's rights and obligations which can be assigned a monetary value under the French legal system. In traditional French legal doctrine, each person whether physical (a human being) or juridical can only have one patrimony. There could be no patrimony without a person (see the notion of patrimoine d'affectation to the contrary).
- Patrimony of affectation
- Family patrimony
- National patrimony, the store of wealth or accumulated reserves of a national economy
- Patrimonialism
- Neopatrimonialism
- The Patrimony of St. Peter, a mediæval state in Italy, ruled by the Pope; see Papal States and Patrimonium Sancti Petri
- Patrimony (novel), a science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster
- Patrimony: A True Story, a non-fiction memoir by American novelist Philip Roth
- A qualification for certain awards, honors, or privileges — such as the Freedom of the City of London
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