| 词汇 | Matron |
| 释义 | `1`Matron `2` "Legal Lexicon": MATRON - A married woman, generally an elderly married woman. By the laws of England, when a widow feigns herself with child, in order to exclude the next heir, and a supposititious birth is expected, then, upon the writ de ventre inspiciendo, a jury of women is to be impanneled to try the question, whether with child or not. So when a woman was sentenced to death, and she declared herself to be quick with child, a jury of matrons is impanneled to try whether she be or be not with child. --b-- |
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