Patrimony
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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
- Patrimony: A True Story, a non-fiction memoir by American novelist Philip Roth
- A qualification for certain awards, honors, or privileges — such as the Freedom of the City of London