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Maternal




Maternal

That which belongs to, or comes from the mother: as, maternal authority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line.

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Comes
1) Offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. 2) Pleading. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court.

Mother
Domestic relations. A woman who has borne a child.

Maternal
That which belongs to, or comes from the mother: as, maternal authority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line.

Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.

Relation
1) Civil law. The report which the judges made of the proceedings in certain suits to the prince were so called. 2) Contracts, construction. When an act is done at one time, and it operates upon the thing as if done at another time, it is said to do so by relation.

Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.

Line
1) Measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. 2) Estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.



SIMILAR TERMS
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Mate
The second officer on board of a merchant ship or vessel.

Mater familias
Civil law. The mother of a family, and, by extension, the mistress of a family.

Material evidence
Evidence which is relevant to the issues in a case.

Material men
This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and other buildings.

Materiality
That which is important; that which is not merely of form but of substance.

Materials
Everything of which anything is made.

Materna maternis
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession the property coming from the mother of a deceased person, descends to his maternal relations.

Maternal property
That which comes from the mother of the party, and other ascendants of the maternal stock.

Maternity
The state or condition of a mother.

Matertera
Maternal aunt; the sister of one's mother.



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Material evidence
Evidence which is relevant to the issues in a case.

Material men
This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and other buildings.

Materiality
That which is important; that which is not merely of form but of substance.

Materials
Everything of which anything is made.

Materna maternis
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession the property coming from the mother of a deceased person, descends to his maternal relations.

Maternal

Maternal property
That which comes from the mother of the party, and other ascendants of the maternal stock.

Maternity
The state or condition of a mother.

Matertera
Maternal aunt; the sister of one's mother.

Mathematical evidence
That evidence which is established by a demonstration. It is used in contradistinction to moral evidence.

Matricula
Civil law. A register in which are inscribed the names of persons who become members of an association or society.In the ancient church there was matricula clericorum, which was a catalogue of the officiating clergy; and matricula pauperum, a list of the poor to be relieved; hence to be entered in the university is to be matriculated.

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