jury of matrons

jury of matrons
A jury employed in England until well into the 19th century, and on rare occasions in the United States, to determine the pregnancy of a woman condemned to death, also to determine the fact of pregnancy where a woman was under suspicion of feigning pregnancy by her deceased husband as a reason for withholding land from the next heir. Union Pacific R. Co. v Botsford, 141 US 250, 35 L Ed 734, 11 S Ct 1000. jury of peers. See peer.

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