Patrimony may refer to:

Law

* Patrimony, or

property Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, r ...

, the total of all personal and real entitlements, including movable and immovable property, belonging to a real person or a juristic person * Patrimony, or

inheritance Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time. Officia ...

, a right or estate inherited from one's father, or other ancestor though the male line *

Patrimony of affectation In certain civil law jurisdictions (e.g., France, Quebec, Mexico, etc.), the patrimoine d'affectation is property, assets, or a legal estate that can be divided for a fiduciary purpose, as being distinct from a person's general assets. It is simil ...

, defined as property, assets, or a legal estate that can be divided for a fiduciary purpose; distinct from a person's general assets *

Family patrimony Family patrimony is a type of civil law patrimony that is created by marriage or civil union (where recognized) which creates a bundle of entitlements and obligations that must be shared by the spouses or partners upon divorce, annulment, dissol ...

, a type of civil law patrimony that is created by marriage or civil union

Arts

* ''Patrimony'' (novel), a 2007 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster * '' Patrimony: A True Story'', a 1991 non-fiction memoir by American novelist Philip Roth * ''Patrimony'' (film), a 2018 Czech comedy film

Politics

National patrimony National patrimony is the store of wealth or accumulated reserves of a national economy. In addition to monetary reserves and other financial holdings, national patrimony also encompasses a nation's non-monetary wealth or reserves, such as its natio ...

, the store of wealth or accumulated reserves of a national economy *

Patrimonialism Patrimonialism is a form of governance in which all power flows directly from the ruler. There is no distinction between the public and private domains. These regimes are autocratic or oligarchic and exclude the lower, middle and upper classes ...

, a form of governance in which all power, both public and private, flows directly from the leader *

Neopatrimonialism Neopatrimonialism is a system of social hierarchy where patrons use state resources to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population. It is an informal patron–client relationship that can reach from very high up in state structures d ...

, a social system in which patrons use state resources to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population * ''

Patrimonium Sancti Petri The Patrimony of Saint Peter ( la, Patrimonium Sancti Petri) originally designated the landed possessions and revenues of various kinds that belonged to the apostolic Holy See (the Pope) i.e. the "Church of Saint Peter" in Rome, by virtue of the ap ...

'' (Patrimony of St. Peter), a medieval state in Italy, ruled by the Pope {{disambiguation