partus

This was the change institutionalized in partus, which made all children of slave mothers born into slavery.

This was the principle of partus sequitur ventrum, also called partus.

De insolitis partus humani viis.

Inventing the rules of slavery, in 1622, Virginians decided to adopt the Roman rule partus sequitur ventrem, which says that you were what your mother was.

The legal doctrine of partus was part of colonial law passed in 1662 by the Virginia House of Burgesses, and by other colonies soon after.

Childbirth, labour, delivery, birth, partus, or parturition is the culmination of a pregnancy period with the expulsion of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus.

This day may be compared with the Mozarabic feast of the Annunciation on 18 December, which is the Roman Expectatio Partus B. M. V.

Whereas most snakes lay eggs, a great majority of vipers give birth to live young, a fact reflected in the family name, taken from the Latin words vivo, meaning live, and partus, birth.

Incorporated into slavery case law in the United State since 1662 in the Virginia Colony, the principle of partus held that the children's legal status was determined by that of the mother.

At this time, he began to write on the condition of parties in the church, as well as on the topic of philosophical reform in the lost tract Temporis Partus Maximus.

In 1662 the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law with the doctrine of partus, stating that any child born in the colony would follow the status of its mother, bond or free.

In 1617, Besard published another collection in Augsberg: Novus Partus, sive Concertationes Musicae, containing approximately 60 solo and ensemble pieces, many of which were by Besard himself.

Scypion's children asserted that as their maternal grandmother was Natchez Indian, their mother should have been freed in 1769, and they should have been considered free at birth, by the principle of partus.

Under the laws, if their mother had been a slave at their births, the children of the Healys would also have been considered slaves, according to the principle of partus by which children were assigned the status of their mother.

Prior to the adoption of the doctrine partus sequitur ventrem (partus) in the English colonies in 1662, beginning in Virginia, English common law had held that among English subjects, a child's status was inherited from its father.

Partus sequitur ventrem, often abbreviated to partus, in the British North American colonies and later in the United States, was a legal doctrine which the English colonists incorporated in legislation related to definitions of slavery.

Shortly after the Elizabeth Key trial and similar challenges, in 1662 Virginia passed a law adopting the principle of partus sequitur ventrum (called partus, for short), stating that any children of an enslaved mother would take her status and be born into slavery, regardless if the father were a freeborn Englishman.