MATRIMONIUM - Steven J. Coker

Subject: MATRIMONIUM
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: December 16, 1998

Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

MATRIMONIUM. By this word is understood the inheritance descending to a man, ex
parti matris. It is but little used. 

Among the Romans this word was employed to signify marriage; and it was so
called because this conjunction was made with the design that the wife should
become a mother....

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