jury of matrons
English
Noun
jury
of
matrons
(
plural
juries of matrons
)
(
historical
)
A jury of women impanelled to try a question of
pregnancy
, as where a
widow
alleges herself to be with child by her late husband, or a woman sentenced to death, to stay execution, pleads that she is with child.
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