Matron
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A woman who is a mother. See "Jury Women." MATTER EN LEY NE SERRA MISE EN bouche del jurors. Matter of laws shall not be put into the mouth of jurors. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 180.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A married woman; an elderly woman. The female superintendent of an establishment or institution, such as a hospital, an orphan asylum, etc., is often so called.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Seems to mean, originally, a woman who has been a mother. It is often used as the style of a female superintendent of an institution or establishment where the duties involve domestic care, the oversight of children, the nursing of the sick, &c. Jury of matrons. A jury formed of women, which is impanelled to try the question whether a woman be with child or not.