Frater
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [Fr. frere.] A brother. Frater consanguineus; a brother by the father's side.
2 Bl. Com. 232.
Frater uterinus; a brother by the mother's side; a uterine brother. Id. Frater nutricius; a bastard brother.
Blount.
Frater fratri uterino non succedet in hereditate paterna. A brother shall not succeed a uterine brother in the paternal inheritance.
2 Bl. Com. 223.
Fortescue de Laudibus LL. Angliae, c.
5.
A maxim of the common law of England, now superseded by the statute 3 & 4 Will. IV. c.
106, § 9.