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Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in

whilst he lives he may have issue, the law not admitting the impossibility of having children at any age. As an estate-tail is originally carved out of a fee-simple, so this estte is carved out of a

Vaccination

provided also that an order directing vaccina-tion, which previously could be made repeatedly until a child reached the age of 14, shall not be made on a person (s. 3) convicted of disobedience of a similar order

Workmen

assistance of persons (a) within the Contributory Pensions Acts (see PENSION), and (b) persons unemployed after attaining the age of 16 years, who might have reasonably expected to have been employed so as to qualify under those

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Coparceners or parceners

third person to divide the estate, and after a division by him, each coparcener, according to seniority of age, or as should be agreed between them, selected her own portion. The privilege of seniority was in this

Deacon

Canons of 1603) that none shall be ordained deacon under twenty-three years, nor priest under twenty-four years of age; though as to deacons the Archbishop of Canterbury has the Privilege of admitting them (by faculty or dispensation)

Probation

Court thinks that the charge is proved, but is of opinion that, having regard to the character, antecedents, age, health, or mental condition of the person charged, or to the trivial nature of the offence, or to

Compulsory retirement

(1955) 1 SCR 26. [Constitution of India, Art. 311] For the judicial officers allowed to superannuate at the age of 58 years and the expressions such as compulsory retirement on attaining the age of 58 years according

Decrepit

Broken down with age wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age feeble worn out

adopted child

adopted child An unmarried child under age 21, who was adopted while under the age of sixteen, and who has been in legal custody and

Child-bearing

this enters into most other codes, and the practice of the Courts in treating women of a certain age as past child-bearing is not a rule of law but is a mere rule of convenience in the

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