Note 180 — Two Notes on the Legal Time for Human Birth. (From Hargrave’s Jurisconsult Exercitations)

The book here cited is a collection of adjudications in the supreme court of Friesland. The author was Johannes a Sande, who was himself a senator of that court. An improved edition of the book came out in 1656. The particular case above cited was adjudged 27th October, 1617. What increases the latitude of the decision for the legitimacy is, that the husband was for some time a valetudinarian, and for 14 days before his death confined to his bed. The book being probably rare amongst English lawyers, and the arguments in the case comprising very ancient and curious research in a moderate compass on the ultimum tempus pariendi for women, the whole of Sande’s report of the case will be given in a note at the end of the present article.