2. In civil law systems the sum total of all personal and real entitlements, including movable and immovable property, belonging to a real person or a moral person. Similar to the common law concept of one's estate, though applied differently. All persons have a patrimony. Patrimonies may also exist independent of persons such as the patrimony of affectation, similar but substantially different from the common law trust or the patrimony of a foundation when it is a social trust. See also family patrimony.