Patrimony is a key concept in the French Civil Code, and this concept is shared in most systems that are based on French law (although it may have another name in other languages). Under this concept, anything that can be assigned a monetary value is part of the patrimony of one and only one natural person or artificial person. Conversely, all of a person's valuables form part of their patrimony. This includes things that under common law would be treated as separate property interests to which different persons may have some sort of interest, such as the right to use a person's name, their reputation, the integrity of their body against injury, as well as their real property and personal property. In other words, anything of value belongs exclusively to a single person, corporation or mar