pregnancy
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 597 U.S. 215 - Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization · 2022Most cited · 165 citing opinions
that condition of a woman from the date of conception to the birth of her child."118 * * * District of Columbia (1901): Sec. 809.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
PLEA OF. A plea by a Woman under sentence of death, on which,
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In medical jurisprudence, The state of a female who has within her ovary or womb a fecundated germ, which gradually becomes developed in the latter receptacle. Dungl. Med. Diet.
— Pregnancy, plea oig. A plea which a woman capitally convicted may plead in stay of execution; for this, though it is no stay of judgment, yet operates as a respite of execution untli she is delivered. Brown.