| This saurian symbol of Chinese emperors has been claimed, from the mid-1980s onward, as the common patrimony of all Chinese people. |
| Male monasteries did not require dowries of their professed members and represented less of a threat to the family patrimony. |
| According to the law of Abdera, whoever wasted his patrimony would be deprived of the rites of burial. |
| His defense was crucially based on his assertion that he was completely unaware that Egypt had cultural patrimony laws of any kind. |
| And once transformed into a narrative, they form part of a common patrimony, available to anyone in the culture. |
| For many nuns their status as a professed religious did not necessarily obviate access to various parts of familial patrimony. |
