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Maternal property






Maternal property

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

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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.

Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.

Ascendants
Those from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be.

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

Stock
1) Merchant law. The capital of a merchant tradesman, or other person including his merchandise, money and credits. In a narrower sense it signifies only the goods and wares he has for sale and traffic. The capital of corporations is also called stock; this is usually divided into shares of a definite value, as one hundred dollars, fifty dollars per share. 2) Descents. This is a metaphorical expression which designates, in the genealogy of a family, the person from whom others are descended: those persons who have so descended are called branches.



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

Maternity
The state or condition of a mother.

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



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

Maternal property

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.

Matrimonial causes
In the English ecclesiastical courts there are five kinds of causes which are classed under this head. 1. Causes for a malicious jactitation. 2. Suits for nullity of marriage, on account of fraud, incest, or other bar to the marriage. 3. Suits for restitution of conjugal rights. 4. Suits for divorces on account of cruelty or adultery, or causes which have arisen since the marriage. 5. Suits for alimony.

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