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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.