Dead-horn
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A dead-born child is to be considered as if it had never been conceived or born; in other words, it is presumed it never had life, it being a maxim of the common law that mortuus exitus non est exitus. Co. Litt. 29b. See 2 Paige, Ch. (N. Y.) 35; Domat, liv. prel. tit. 2, § 1, notes 4, 6; 4 Ves. 334. This is also the doctrine of the civil law. Dig. 50. 16. 120. Non nasci, et natum mori, pari sunt, not to be born, and to be born dead, are equivalent. Mortuus exitus non est exitus, a dead birth is no birth. Civ. Code La. art. 28.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A dead-born child is to be considered as if it had never been conceived or born; in other words, it is presumed it never had life, it being a maxim of the common law that mortvus exitus non est exitus (a dead birth is no birth). Co. Litt. 29 o. See Marsellis v. Thalhimer, 2 Paige,,Ch. (N. Y.) 35, 21 Am. Dec. 66; 4 Ves. 334. This is also the doctrine of the civil law, Dig. 50. 16. 129. Non nasci, et natum mori, paria sunt (not to be born, and to be born dead, are equivalent). La. Civ. Code, art. 28; Domat, liv. prel. t. 2, s. 1, nn. 4, 6.