FEMALE. This term denotes the sex which bears young.
2. It is a general rule, that the young of female animals which belong
to us, are ours, nam fetus ventrem sequitur. Inst. 2, 1, 19; Dig. 6, 1, 5,
2. The rule is, in general, the same with regard to slaves; but when a
female slave comes into. a free state, even without the consent of her
master, and is there delivered of a child, the latter is free. Vide
Feminine; Gender; Masculine.