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Venter, Ventre

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

Black's Law Dictionary

The belly or womb. The term is used in law as designating the maternal parentage of children. Thus, where in ordinary phraseology we should say that A. was B.'s child by his first wife, he wouid be described in law as by the first venter."

Brown.