patria potestas

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The legal power and rights of a Roman father over his children and descendants by virtue of his paternity.
 * 2) * 1870, William George Smith (ed.), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd American ed., page 742
 * It was a condition of the patria potestas that the child should be born in marriage.

Translations

 * Latin: patria potestās