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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In old records. Grass; herbage.

2 Mon. Angl. 9065; Cowell. FOQ:TICIDE.

In medical jurisprudence, Destruction of the fetus; the act by which criminal abortion is produced.

1Beck, Med. Jur. 288; Guy, Med. Jur. 183.