OPERATION

A. surgical operation whereby the fmtus, which can neither make its way into the world by the ordinary and natural pa age, nor be extracted D by the attempts of art, whetber tbe mother and fcetus be yet alive, or whether either of them be dead, is, by a cautious and well timed operation, taken from the mother, with a view to ·save tbe lives of both, or either of them. This consists in making an incision f into the abdomen and uterus of tbe motber and withdrawing the fcetus thereby. If this'.operation be performed after the mother's death, the husband cannot be tenant by the curtesy; since his right begins from the birth f of-the i ue, and is consummated by the deatb of the wife; but. if mother and child are saved, then the husband would be entitled after her death. Wharton. ClETERUS. Lat. Otber; another; the G rest. -Creteris paribus. Other things being equal. -Creteris tacentibus, The others being si• lent; the other judges eXJ}re ing no opinion. Comb. 186.-Creterorum. When a ljmited administration has ~n gl'llD.ted, and all the propff erty cannot be administered under it, admiD.i strati on =teron1,m (as to the resldu~ ma:, be granted. [s. 167]