MATRIMONIUM

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MATRIMONIUM. By this word is understood the inheritance descending to a man, 
  ex parti matris. It is but little used. 
       2. Among the Romans this word was employed to signify marriage; and it 
  was so called because this conjunction was made with the design that the 
  wife should become a mother. Inst. 1, 9, 1.