Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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de ventre inspiciendo
n. [Law Latin "of (or for) inspecting the belly"] 1. A writ allowing a presumptive heir to summon a jury of matrons to verify the pregnancy of a widow suspected of feigning the pregnancy to produce a supposed heir. -Also termed ad ventrem inspiciendum. See venire facias tot matronas under VENIRE FACIAS."And this gives occasion to a proceeding at common law, where a widow is suspected to feign herself with child, in order to produce a supposititious heir to the estate: an attempt which the rigor of the Gothic constitutions esteemed equivalent to the most
ventre inspiciendo
See DE VENTRE INSPICIENDO; venire facias tot matronas under VENIRE FACIAS.