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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
This word is sometimes employed, in a wide sense, as equivalent to sui juris. A person sui juris is called paterfamilias, even when under the age of puberty. In the narrower and more common use, a paterfamilias is any one invested with potestas over any person. It is thus as applicable to a grandfather as to a father.
Hunter Eom. Law, 49.
Pater patriae
Father of the country. See Parens Patri^e.