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Compaternitas

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. In the canon law. A kind of spiritual relationship (cognatio sjnritualis) contracted by baptism.

Heinecc.

Elem. Jur. Civ. lib.

1,.tit. 10, § 161, note.

Bract, fol.

298 b.

One of the grounds of divorce. Id, ibid.