Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-grandfather's brother, (abavi frater.) Inst 3; 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called patruus maximus. Id. 38, 10, 10, 17. Called, by Bracton and Fleta, abpatruus magnus. Bract. fol. 68b; Fleta, lib. 6, c. 2, § 17
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
