Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Dos rationabilis vel legitima est cujuslibet mulieris de quocunque tenemento tertia pars omnium terrarum et tenementorum, quae vir suus tenuit in dominio suo ut de feodo, etc
Reasonable or legitimate dower belongs to every woman of a third part of all the lands and tenements of which her husband was seised in his demesne, as of fee, etc.
Maturiora sunt vota mulierum quam virorum
The wishes of women are of quicker maturity than those of men.( That is, women arrive earlier at eligibility for marriage. 6 Coke 71.
Sponte virum fugiens mulier et adultera facta, doti sua careat, nisi sponsi sponte retracta
A woman leaving her husband of her own accord and committing adultery should lose her dower, unless she is taken back by her husband of his own accord.
filius mulieratus
[Law Latin] Hist. The eldest legitimate son of a woman who previously had an illegitimate son by the same father; a legitimate son, whose older brother is illegitimate; MULIER PUISNE. Cf bastard eisne under EISNE.
mulier
, n. [Latin] 1. Roman law. A woman. 0 This term at various times referred to a marriageable virgin, a woman not a virgin, a wife, and a mother. 2. Hist. & Scots law. A legitimate son; the son of a mulier ("lawful wife"). - Also termed mulieratus.
mulier puisne
[Law Latin] Hist. The younger lawful son, usu. distinguished from the bastard eigne ("the elder bastard son"). "The common law developed one exception to its harsh doctrine of bastardy. Where the eldest son was born out of wedlock (the bastard eigne) and the next son was born to the same parents after the marriage (the mulier puisne), and upon the ancestor's death the bastard eigne entered as heir and remained in undisturbed possession until his own death, the bastard eigne was treated as if he had been legitimate with respect to the inheritance of that land. The reason given by Littleton was that a person who was legitimate by the Canon law could not be bastardised posthumously, when he no longer had the opportunity to contest the issue." J.H Baker, An Introduction. to English Legal History 559 (3d ed. 1990).
mulierty
Hist. The condition of a legitimate child, as distinguished from a bastard.