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Abpatruus

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-grandfather's brother, (abavi frater.) Inst. 3, 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called patruus maximus.

Id. 38, 10, 10, 17.

Called, by Bracton and Fleto, abpatruus magnus.

Bract. foL 68b; Fleto, lib. 6, c. 2, § 17.