Sterility
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STERILITY. Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and incurable; when of the latter kind, at the time of the marriage, and arising from impotency, it is a good cause for dissolving a marriage. 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec. 254. See Impotency.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.