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PROLICIDE Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

Iu medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into foeticide, or tlie destruction of the foetus in utcro, and infanticide, or the destruction of the new-lioru infant. Ry. Med. Jur. 280.

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