patrimony
The expression patrimony (from Latin pater : "father"; the substantive ending -monium goes back to the Indo-European tribe * men / mon with the meaning "reminder / admonition") experienced a narrowing of meaning in the course of its history.
Roman law
The term patrimony (etymologically patris munia , "affairs of the pater familias ") initially meant the property affairs of the pater familias. However, the meaning extended to the legal entirety of property in the broader sense.
Property under Roman private law was not limited to visible property rights, but also included pledge and mortgage.
Negative wealth in debt, as is common today, was unknown to Roman legal tradition. Only assets were assigned to the patrimony.
Patrimonium Caesaris or Patrimonium principis has been the name given to the property that the Roman emperors had acquired privately since Augustus . The p. Caesaris stood next to the republican state treasury ( Aerarium Populi Romani ) and the financial resources that were due to the emperor as incumbent ( fiscus Caesaris ).
Church history
Patrimonium Petri (also patrimonium Ecclesiae , "Petri Erbgut") is the fortune of the Roman Church, the Papal State , which the Apostle Peter was regarded as the founder of which was acquired through donations and which was increasingly enlarged ; In the narrower sense, the parts of the Papal States in the immediate vicinity of Rome, which had fallen to the popes in the 8th century and which were not annexed by Sardinia in 1860, but remained in the possession of the pope until 1870.
Social history
The workload of the disinherited is called the “patrimony of the disinherited” or inheritance of the dispossessed. When the tobacco monopoly was to be introduced in Germany, there was also a lot of talk about the fact that it would give the workers insurance funds and thus a patrimony of the disinherited.
Cultural asset
Occasionally patrimony stands for the cultural heritage , the genetic material (hence the title of the series of publications of the Kulturstiftung der Länder Patrimonia ). This use of the term is influenced by the French patrimoine (cultural property).
Pop Culture
Patrimonium is also the name of a freeware computer game that belongs to the genre of classic point-and-click adventures.
literature
- Elmar Bund : patrimony . In: Der Kleine Pauly , Vol. 4, 1972, Col. 554.
- Publication series Patrimonia of the Kulturstiftung der Länder on cultural assets of national importance acquired with the support of the Foundation; ISSN 0941-7036
