Jury of matrons

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(Law)

a jury of experienced women called to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar of execution, and for other cognate purposes.

See also: Matron

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It was a moving sight to behold him wasting away day by day, growing thinner and thinner and ghastlier and ghastlier, and staring with rueful visage from under an old patchwork counterpane, upon the jury of matrons kindly assembled to sigh and groan and look unhappy around him.

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