jury of matrons

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jury of matrons (plural juries of matrons)

  1. (historical) A jury of women impanelled to try a question of pregnancy, as where a widow alleges herself to be with child by her late husband, or a woman sentenced to death, to stay execution, pleads that she is with child.
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