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EX PARTE PATERNA Definition & Legal Meaning

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On the father’s side; of the paternal line.The phrases “ex parte materna” and “cx parte paterna” denote the line or blood ofthe mother or father, and have no such restricted or limited sense as from the motheror father exclusively. Banta v. Demarest, 24 N. J. Law, 43

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