Pregnancy

In medical jurisprudence, The state of a female who has within her ovary or womb a fecundated germ, which gradually becomes developed in the latter receptacle. Dungl. Med. Diet.

— Pregnancy, plea oig. A plea which a woman capitally convicted may plead in stay of execution; for this, though it is no stay of judgment, yet operates as a respite of execution untli she is delivered. Brown.