Foeticide
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In medical jurisprudence. The act of criminal abortion.
1 Beck, Med. Jur. 288; Guy, Med. Jur. 133.
FOETURA (Law Lat.) In civil law. The produce of animals, and the fruit of other property, which are acquired to the owner of such animals and property by virtue of his right. Bowyer, Mod. Civ. Law, c.
14, p. 81.
FOETUS (Lat.) In medical jurisprudence. An unborn child; an infant in ventre so mere. and not eaten in summer. Spelman; Cowell. Distinguished from "hay.'^