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Posthumous

Born after the death of the father or taken from the dead body of the mother as a posthumous

Alien

Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts,

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created after the date of legitimation, a legitimated person will rank according to seniority next after all children born legitimate on the day of his or her legitimation, as if he or she had been born on

Infanticide

child, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 781. Infanticide, the killing of a child immediately after it is born. The felonious destruction of the feticide, or criminal abortion. In every case in which an infant is found

Paternity

Coke say, that if a man dies, and his widow soon after marries again, and a child is born within such a time as that by the course of nature it might have been the child of

Posthumous child

Posthumous child, a child born after its father's death. By 10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 16, such child may take an estate

Porphyrogenitism

principle of succession in royal families especially among the Eastern Roman emperors by which a younger son if born after the accession of his father to the throne was preferred to an elder son who was not

Finance Acts

Finance Acts. In and after 1894 the Annual Taxing Acts, which had for a long time borne the short titles of 'Customs and Inland Revenue Acts,' have borne the short titles of 'Finance Acts.' The

Conditio si testator sine liberis decesserit

Conditio si testator sine liberis decesserit. When a general settlement makes no provision for children born to the testator after its date, there is a presumption in the Law of Scotland that it is

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