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Abusing children
Abusing children, having carnal intercourse with young girls. If the girl be under the age of 13 (formerly 10 and afterwards 12) years, the offences is a felony punishable with penal servitude for
Bastard
Bastard [fornication], one born not of lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not
Senile
Of or pertaining to old age proceeding from or characteristic of old age affected with the infirmities of old age as senile weakness
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Education
with powers of building and maintaining elementary schools and of regulating the attendance of school children between the ages of 5 and 13. The El. Ed. Act, 1876, declared 'the duty of the parent of every child
Friendly societies
the relief and maintenance of the members or their wives, children, relations, and nominees, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, etc. by the Friendly Societies Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 60), various prior statutes regulating
Marriage
marriages solemnized in England which appear to him to be invalid or of doubtful validity.' Essentials of Contract.--The age for marriage had been fixed from the earliest times at 14 for males, 12 for females. But since
Minor children
Minor children, means, in the case of sons of Native fathers, boys, who have not completed the age of sixteen years, and, in the case of daughters of Native fathers, girls who have not completed the
Wills
Who may execute a will. The seventh s. enacts that no will made by any person under the age of twenty-one years shall be valid, repealing the old law, by which an infant of the age of
Woman
Woman, the word 'woman' denotes a female human being of any age. (Indian Penal Code, s. 10) By the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 1, reproducing 13 & 14 Vict.
adea
adea Short for the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the ADEA is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of age
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