PATRIMONIUM

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PATRIMONIUM, civil law. That which is capable, of being inherited. 
       2. Things capable of being possessed by a single person exclusively of 
  all others, are, in the Roman or civil law, said to be in patrimonio; when 
  incapable of being so possessed they are extra-patrimonium. 
       3. In general, things may be inherited, but there are some which are 
  said to be extra patrimonium, or which are not in commerce. These are such 


  as are common, as the light of heaven, the air, the sea, and the like. 
  Things public, as rivers, harbors, roads, creeks, ports, arms of the sea, 
  the, seashore, highways, bridges, and the like. Things which belong to 
  cities and municipal corporations, as public squares, streets, market 
  houses, and the like. See, 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 421 to 446.