Exposition de part
EXPOSITION DE PART, French law. The abandonment of a child, unable to take
care of itself, either in a public or private place.
2. If the child thus exposed should be killed in consequence of such
exposure; as, if it should be devoured by animals, the person thus exposing
it would be guilty of murder. Rose. Cr. Ev. 591.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.