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Of or pertaining to a mother becoming to a mother motherly as maternal love maternal tenderness...
Maternity benefit
Maternity benefit. See NATIONAL INSURANCE....
Inheritance
Inheritance, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir t law.The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral consanguinity of the owner dying intestate.These rules have been abolished in the case of deaths after January 1st, 1926, with a few exceptions (see HEIR), by the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 51, but they still affect the devolution before 1926 of all titles to estates of inheritance.Inheritance Act.--The Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), materially altered the old canons of real property descent, but because the Act does not extend to any descent which took place on the death of any person who died before the 1st of January, 1834, it is deemed expedient to give both old and new:-Old Canons.--The old Canons, which obtain in cases of ancestors dying before the 1st of January, 1834...
maternalistic
showing maternal instincts behaving as a mother should motherly...
Maternally
In a motherly manner...
Maternity
The state of being a mother motherhood...
maternity ward
The section of a hospital devoted to assisting women during childbirth and caring for them and their newborn infants until they are released to go home...
matriarch
The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants a ruler by maternal right...
matrilineage
The line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family the mothers line of descent...
motherlike
suggestive of or acting like a mother motherly maternal...
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