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See: embryo PARTUS. The child just before it is born, or immediately after its birth. Before birth the partus is considered as a portion of the mother. Dig. 25, 4, 1, 1. See Birth; Foetus; Proles; Prolicide. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Morris has noted, English colonists did in fact have a legal principle that allowed them to enslave the children of enslaved mothers without challenging patrilineality or relying upon the principle of partus sequitur ventrem (which had traditionally dictated that animals' offspring belonged to the owner of the mother). The rule derives from the ancient Roman principle: partus sequitur ventrem. D'Aubigne's name, Agrippa, derives from aegere partus ("torn away from"); his identity is the brutal consequence of being ripped away from the mother. |
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