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Sterility

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and incurable. See "Impotence." Incapacity of the male to impregnate, or of the female to conceive, when copulation is natural and complete. Keysor, Med. Leg. Manual, 219.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and incurable; when of the latter kind at the time of the marriage, and arising from impotency, it is a good cause for dissolving a marriage. 1 Foderd, M6d. L6g. § 254. See Viability.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child.