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Mulier Definition
Of ancient time, “mulier” was taken for a wife, as it is commonly used for a woman, and sometimes for a widow; but it has been held that a virgin is included under the name “mulier.” Co. Litt. 170, 243; 2 Bl. Comm. 248. The term is used always in contradistinction to a bastard, mulier being always legitimate (Co. Litt. 243), and seems to be a word corrupted from melior, or the French meilleur, signifying lawful issue born in wedlock. But by Glanville, lawful issue are said to be mulier, not from melior, but because begotten e muliere and not ea concubina, for he calls such issue fUiog mulieratos, opposing them to bastards. Glanv. lib. 7, c. 1. If the said lands “should, according to the queen’s lawes, descend to the right heire, then in right it ought to descend to him, as next heire being myMedia borne, and the other not so borne.” Holinshead, Chron. Ireland, an. 1558,
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Of ancient time, “mulier” was taken for a wife, as it is commonly used for a woman, and sometimes for a widow; but it has been held that a virgin is included under the name “mulier.” Co. Litt. 170, 243; 2 Bl. Comm. 248. The term is used always in contradistinction to a bastard, mulier being always legitimate (Co. Litt. 243), and seems to be a word corrupted from melior, or the French meilleur, signifying lawful issue born in wedlock. But by Glanville, lawful issue are said to be mulier, not from melior, but because begotten e muliere and not ea concubina, for he calls such issue fUiog mulieratos, opposing them to bastards. Glanv. lib. 7, c. 1. If the said lands “should, according to the queen’s lawes, descend to the right heire, then in right it ought to descend to him, as next heire being myMedia borne, and the other not so borne.” Holinshead, Chron. Ireland, an. 1558,
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