Monster

An animal which has a conformation contrary to the order of nature.

2 Dungl. Hum. Phys. 422.

A monster, although born of a woman in lawful wedlock, cannot inherit. Those who have, however, the essential parts of the human form, and have merely some defect 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 366; Co. Litt. 7, 8; Dig. 1.

5. 14; 1 Swift, System, 331; Fred. Code, pt. 1, bk. 1, tit. 4, § 4.

No living human birth, however much it may differ from human shape, can be lawfully destroyed.

Traill, Med. Jur. 47.

See Briand, Med. Leg. pt.

1, c. 6, art. 2, § 3; 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. §§ 402-405.

MONSTRANS DE DROIT (Fr. showing of right). A common-law process by which restitution of personal or real property is obtained from the crown by a subject. Chit. Prerog.

Cr. 345; 3 Bl. Comm. 256.

By this process, when the facts of the title of the crown are already on record, the facts on which the plaintiff relies, not inconsistent with such record, are shown, and judgment of the court prayed thereon. The judgment, if against the crown, is that of ouster le main, which vests possession in the subject without execution.

Bac. Abr. "Prerogative" (E); 1 And. 181; 5 Leigh (Va.) 512; 12 Grat. (Va.) 564.

MONSTRANS DE FAIT (Fr. showing of a deed). A profert.

Bac. Abr. "Pleas" (I 12, note 1).