patrimoniales

Patrimoniales is an adjective used in legal and economic contexts to refer to matters linked to a patrimony or to patrimonial rights and assets. In civil law, patrimony denotes the totality of a person’s or entity’s assets, rights and obligations that have economic value. The term patrimoniales typically describes elements that can be valued, transferred, inherited or otherwise encumbered, and that generate or absorb wealth.

Derechos patrimoniales are those rights whose main characteristic is economic value. They include property rights (ownership, usufruct, use, habitation, servitudes), contractual rights, credits and receivables, and other assets or claims that can be bought, sold or assigned. Intellectual property rights can also be patrimonial when they have a commercial value and are exploitable. By contrast, some rights are extrapatrimoniales, meaning they concern personal or moral aspects that are not readily valued or transferred, such as honor, privacy, image or certain personality rights, depending on the jurisdiction.

The concept is used in several areas, including inheritance and succession, where a person’s patrimony is the unit of transmission, and in accounting and taxation, where patrimony or patrimonial net worth is used to describe equity or net assets. In summary, patrimoniales concerns the economic, transferable, and inheritable components of a subject’s patrimony, as distinct from non-economic or non-transferable personal rights.