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Annus Luctus

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Annus luctus, the year of mourning, during which the widow, by the ordinances of the Civil Law, could not marry, to prevent the inconvenience of a widow bearing a child which, by the period of gestation, might be the child either of her deceased or her present husband, Cod. 5, 9, 2.

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