| According to the law of Abdera, whoever wasted his patrimony would be deprived of the rites of burial. |
| Thus, noble and even non-noble families incorporated great amounts of their patrimony into these entailed estates. |
| This saurian symbol of Chinese emperors has been claimed, from the mid-1980s onward, as the common patrimony of all Chinese people. |
| Norman abbots energetically fought off the encroachments on the wealth and patrimony of the houses on which the abbots' own fates depended. |
| They hoped to foster intercultural communications with other Panamanians and emphasize the indigenous concept of natural resource patrimony. |
| Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony. |
