exposition de part

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
EXPOSITION DE PART, French law. The abandonment of a child, unable to take 
care of itself, either in a public or private place. 
     2. If the child thus exposed should be killed in consequence of such 
exposure; as, if it should be devoured by animals, the person thus exposing 
it would be guilty of murder. Rose. Cr. Ev. 591. 
    

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