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Maternal

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

Black's Law Dictionary

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

Maternal property. That which comes from the mother of the party, and other ascendants of the maternal stock. Dom. Liv. Prl. t. 3, s. 2, nn. 12.