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  • MATHEMATICAL EVIDENCE
    See EVIDENCE.
  • MATRICIDE
    The murder of a mother; or one who has slain his mother.
  • MATRICULA
    In the civil and old Eng. llsh law. A register of the admission of officers and persons entered Into any body or society, whereof a list was made. Hence those who are admitted to a college or university are said to be "matriculated." Also a kind of almshouse, which had More...
  • MATRICULATE
    To enter as a student in a, university. Matrimonia debent esse libera. Marriages ought to be free. A maxim of the civil law. 2 Kent, Comm. 102.
  • MATRIMONIAL
    Of or pertaining to matrimony or the estate of marriage. -Matrimonial causes. In English ecclesiastical law. Causes of action or injuries respecting the rights of marriage. One of the three divisions of .causes or injuries cognizable by the ecclesiastical courts, comprising suits for jactitation of marriage, and for restitution of More...
  • MATRIMONIUM
    Lat. In Roman law. A legal marriage, contracted in strict ac--cordance with the forms of the older Roman law, ?. e., either with the farreum, the co-cmptio, or by usus. This was allowed only to Roman citizens and to those neighboring peoples to whom the right of connuhium had been More...
  • MATRIMONY
    Marriage, (q. v.,) in the sense of the relation or status, not of the ceremony.
  • MATRIX
    In the civil law. The protocol or flrst draft of a legal instrument, from which all copies must be taken. See Downing v. Diaz, 80 Tex. 436, 16 S. W. 53.
  • MATRIX ECCLESIA
    Lat. A mother church. This term was anciently applied to a cathedral, in relation to the other churches In the same see, or to a parochial church, in relation to the chapels or minor churches attached to it or depending on it. Blount
  • MATRON
    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.
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