the consent that does not need to be received by medical staff in emergency situations when a person needs life saving treatment.

a rule used when a spouse does not agree to cruel marital treatment merely if they don’t act against it in the hope of saving a marriage.

An exemption sets the doctor free from any doctor patient privileges, so that he cannot be sued by his patients for negligence or malpractice .

Lat. The country, neighborhood , or vicinage; the men of the neighborhood ; a jury of the vicinage. Synonymous, in this sense, with “pais.” Patria laboribns et expensis non debet […]

Lat In Roman law. Paternal authority; the paternal power . This term denotes the aggregate of those peculiar powers and rights which, by the civil law of Rome, belonged to […]

The chief bishop over several countries or provinces, as an archbishop is of several dioceses. Godb. 20.

One who has killed his father. As to the punishment of that offense by the Roman law, see Sandars’ Just Inst. (5th Ed.) 496.

In the civil law . A title of the highest honor, conferred on those who enjoyed the chief place in the emperor’s esteem.

Pertaining to a patrimony ; inherited from ancestors, but strictly from the direct male ancestors.

In the civil law . The private and exclusive ownership or dominion of an individual . Things capable of being possessed by a single person to the exclusion of all […]

A right or estate inherited from one’s ancestors, particularly from direct male ancestors.

In old ecclesiastical law . A godfather. Spelman.

An Act that was put in to motion in September 2001, after the terrorist attacks. This act allows the government to track, and monitor all channels of communication between two […]

An honor conferred on men of the first quality in the time of the English Saxon kings.

In Roman law. Patronage; protection; defense. The business or duty of a patron or advocate.

A policeman assigned to duty in patrolling a certain beat or district; also the designation of a grade or rank in the organized police force of large cities, a patrolman […]

In ecclesiastical law . He who has the right, title, power, or privilege of presenting to an ecclesiastical benefice. In Roman law. The former master of an emancipated slave. In […]

In English ecclesiastical law . The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the same with advowson, (q. v.) 2 Bl. Comm. 21. The right of appointing to […]

the term that is given to a refund or a dividend that is paid out of profits from a cooperative association .

Lat. In Roman law. The condition, relation, right, or duty of a patron. In ecclesiastical law . Patronage, (q. v.) Patronum facinnt dos, acdificatio, fnndns. Dod. Adv. 7. Endowment, building, […]

1. To favour or to encourage. 2. To act in a condescending manner to a person. 3. To use a store’s facilities as a regular customer.

Lat. In Roman law. A person who stood in the relation of protector to another who was called his “client.” One who advised his client in matters of law, aud […]

The proprietors of certain manors created in New York in colonial times were so called.

Lat. In the civil law . A cousin-germau by the father’s side; the son or daughter of a father’s brother. Wharton.

Lat. An uncle by the father’s side; a father’s brother.