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Infra Brachia

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Within her arms

Used of a husband de jure, as well as de facto.

2 Inst. 317.

Also inter brachia. Bract, fol.

148b.

It was in this sense that a woman could only have an appeal for murder of her husband inter brachia sua.