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adult

Matched in: Term adult

Adult

Matched in: Term Adult

grownup

fully developed adult mature of people and animals as Act like a grownup

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mallee hen

The adult female of the mallee fowl Leipoa ocellata See Leipoa

Nonadult

Not adult immature

False pretence, obtaining property

does not intend to pass the property, Whitehorn Bros. v. Davison, (1911) 1 KB 463. Young Persons and Adults pleading guilty.--Obtaining by false pretences, money, etc., to any amount, in the case of young persons between 12

Beneficial transaction

or was reasonably expected to confer benefit on the family at the time it was entered into. Where adult members are in existence the judgment is to be not that of the Manager of the family alone

Electoral franchise

certain savings as to corporate towns, the (English) Reform Act, 1832, established a universal 10l. household suffrage for adult males. The (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867 (ss. 3 and 4), gave the franchise to every

child

below an age specified by law : infant minor [assault on a under 16 years of age] compare adult NOTE: A person who is below the statutory age but is married will usually be considered an adult.

Killdee

small American plover Charadrius vociferus formerly AEliggialitis vocifera of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry The adult has two black bands around the neck and upper breast but the young chick has only the breast

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