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Child-bearing. The English law admits of no presumption as to the time when a woman ceases to bear children, though this enters into most other codes, and the practice of the Courts in treating women of a certain age as past child-bearing is not a rule of law but is a mere rule of convenience in the administration fo estates; there is no legal impossibility in a woman 100 years old bearing a child; see Farwell on Powers, p. 295 and cases there referred to; Co. Litt. 40 b. The possibility of bearing a child after the age of fifty-four was recognized by the Court of Appeal in Corxton v. May, (1878) 9 Ch D 388, in a case where the woman had been married only three years.