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Quick With Child

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The state of a woman pregnant with a quick child, i. e., a foetus which has quickened.

9 Mete. (Mass.) 263.

A woman's condition from the time of conception and the commencement of gestation.

49 N. Y. 89.

In an English case, "quick with child" was distinguished from "with quick child," the former phrase being said to signify merely "having conceived" (8 Car. & P. 262), but this distinction is not recognized (22 N. J. Law, 57).