Pater

Father.

Compare Partus. Has been used in genealogical tables. Pater est (iuem nuptise demonstrant. The nuptials show who is the father. The marriage of the mother declares the paternity of the child. At common law, the nuptials must precede the birth of the child; in the civil law, they may precede or follow.* 1 R. S. §§ 476, et seq. * Act 18 Feb. 1888 (25 St. L. 40), amending R. S. §48a3. s Butterworth v. Hoe, 112 U. S. 50 (1884), Matthews, J. * See Curtis, Pat. 183; 20 Am. Law Rev. 703-12 (1886), cases; 1 Story, 273; 3 id. 542, 609; 2 Blateh. 148; 7 id. 195. Paterfamilias. The father (head) of a family; one not subject to paternal power, but sui Juris. In the Roman law, a paterfamilias was one who either had no father living or had been emancipated from his power. A man who had neither wife nor cl^ld was in this position or status. But a man with a wife and child was a, filiusfamilias, if subject to the family control of a living father — the patria potestas,^ q. v.

Pater patriae

Father of the country.

See Parens.