Public patrimony public patrimony. An approach to the concept and its content

Abstract

The public patrimony is a concept of public law, of wide range, that surpasses in its content the concept of patrimony of the State. The definition as a unit or as a plurality of each and its ownership contribute to facilitate their particular content and the exercise of the rights and actions that public authorities must practice in order to preserve their integrity. The concept concerns to the public management science and is fundamental in the field of the administrative law. It constitutes object of management and object of preservation to avoid attacks against itself, to remedy created situations or to judicially take part for its restoration or resetting. The public patrimony is in the interest of the internal and international order, the patrimony of the State, at first, involves the domestic law in the private and administrative order, following the principle that affirms that the state is characterized by its subjection to the law, as every public or private subject is.