HERMAPHRODITE

In medical jurisprudence. A person of doubtful or double sex; one po e ing, really or apparently, and in more or le developed form, some ·or. all of the g_enital organs of both sexes. Hermaphroditus tain masculo quam frewnm oomparatur, secundum prmvalentiam ■ezus incalescent is. An hermaphrodite 1s to be considered male or female according to the predominance of the excit• ing sex. -Co. Litt. 8; Bract. foL 5.. HERMENEU'l'ICS,. The science or are of construction and interpretation. By the, phrase "legal hermeneutics" is understood the systematic body of rules which are recognized as app llc able to the construction and interpretation ot legal writb:iga. [s. 576]