Mulier

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mulier \Mu"li*er\, n. [L., a woman.]
     1. A woman.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Law)
        (a) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an


            elder brother born of the same parents before their
            marriage; a lawful son.
        (b) (Civ. Law) A woman; a wife; a mother. --Blount.
            --Cowell.
            [1913 Webster]

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

  MULIER. A woman, a wife; sometimes it is used to designate a marriageable 
  virgin, and in other cases the word mulier is employed in opposition to 
  virgo. Poth. Pand. tom. 22, h.t. In its most proper signification, it means 
  a wife.  
       2. A son or a daughter, born of a lawful wife, is called filius 
  mulieratus or filia mulierata, a son mulier, or a daughter mulier. The term 
  is used always in contradistinction to a bastard; mulier being always 
  legitimate. Co. Litt. 243. 
       3. When a man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and 
  has by her another son, the latter is called the mulier puisne. 2 Bl. Com. 
  248.