PATER

Lat. A father; the father. In the civil law, this word sometimes included civus, (grandfather.) Dig. 50, 16, 201. · -Pater patrire. Father of the country. See PARENS PATRL'E, Pater is est qnem nuptire dmnonstrant. The father is he whom the marriage points out. 1 Bl. Comm. 446;,Tate v. Penne, 7 Mart. {N. S. La.) 548, 553; Dig. 2, 4, 5; Broom, Max. 516. BLLA.W DIC'l'.(2D Eo.)-56 [s. 887]