PATRIMONY

'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.

★ 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

★ '', a non-fiction by American novelist Philip Roth

★ A qualification for certain awards, honors, or privileges — such as the Freedom of the City of London