patriality Definition

patrial
noun

1. formerly
Someone who, being a citizen of the UK, a British colony or the British Commonwealth, or the child or grandchild of someone born in the UK, has a legal right to live in the UK.

Derivative: patriality
noun

Etymology: 1970s in this sense, this right having been introduced by the Immigration Act 1971, but removed by the British Nationality Act 1981: from Latin patria fatherland.