• Property or other legal entitlements inherited from (or through), one's father, especially if it has been handed down through generations in the same family, birthright ; see heirloom.
• In civil law systems, the total of all personal and real entitlements, including movable and immovable property, belonging to a real person or a juristic person; in some respects similar to the common-law concept of a person's estate
• Patrimony of affectation, in civil law, a legal entitlement that can be divided for a purpose, as distinct from the general patrimony of the person; in some respects similar to a common-law trust
• Family patrimony, a type of civil law patrimony that is created by marriage or civil union, similar to the common-law concept of community property
• National patrimony, the store of wealth or accumulated reserves of a national economy
• Patrimonialism, a form of governance in which all power, both public and private, flows directly from the leader
• Neopatrimonialism, a social system in which patrons use state resources to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population
• The Patrimony of St. Peter, a mediæval state in Italy, ruled by the Pope; see Papal States and Patrimonium Sancti Petri
• Patrimony (novel), a 2007 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster
• , a 1991 non-fiction memoir by American novelist Philip Roth
• A qualification for certain awards, honors, or privileges — such as the Freedom of the City of London

• Pour le patrimoine propre aux biens immobiliers et financiers, voir l'article patrimoine (finance).
• Pour la conception juridique du patrimoine, voir patrimoine (droit)
• Pour la notion de patrimoine recouvrant les biens identitaires et culturels d'une population, tels le patrimoine architectural ou le patrimoine artistique, voir l'article patrimoine (culture) ;
• Pour le système d'information, voir patrimoine informationnel ;
• Sous l'égide de l'Unesco, une liste du patrimoine mondial s'établit progressivement. Ce patrimoine est défini comme « l’héritage du passé dont nous profitons aujourd’hui (et) que nous transmettons aux générations à venir ».
• Pour le patrimoine lié aux langues, patrimoine linguistique.
• Pour les apports en ingénierie , voir Lumières – (article récent, en cours de , à faire évoluer)
• Dans le domaine de l'environnement, voir les articles patrimoine naturel et patrimoine géologique
• Pour le patrimoine en espace rural, voir patrimoine rural

O patrimônio como objeto científico da contabilidade, foi proposto pelos seguidores das correntes científicas do Patrimonialismo e do Neopatrimonialismo.

Em Direito, "bem" é um sinônimo de "patrimônio". O inventário seria o primeiro procedimento jurídico para se levantar o patrimônio de uma pessoa (o segundo seria o Balanço Patrimonial.