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Home Dictionary Name: birthwrongful birth
wrongful birth : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a child born with a birth defect against a physician or health-care provider whose alleged negligence (as in prenatal testing or diagnosis) effectively deprived the parents of the opportunity to make an informed decision whether to avoid or terminate the pregnancy ;also : the birth or injury at issue in such a claim [recognize a cause of action for wrongful birth] NOTE: Two factors behind the general recognition of the wrongful birth claim are scientific advances in prenatal diagnosis of birth defects and the legalization of abortion. Wrongful birth and wrongful life are distinct from malpractice claims alleging actual physical injury to a fetus caused by a negligently performed procedure. ...
Birth, Concealing
Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of a child, whether such child died before, at, or after his birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdeameanour, punishable with imprisonment not exceeding two years. To constitute the offence it must be established that the mother was delivered of a child within the meaning of the statute (see R. v. Colmer, 9 Cox, 506; R. v. Hewitt, 4 F. & F. 1101), that there was a definite act of concealment of the body as distinguished from abandonment, that the child was dead at the time, and that a body has been found and identified with that of the child to whom the charge relates. S. 60 of the Act provides, further, that if any woman tried for the murder of a child is acquitted thereof, she can lawfully be convicted of concealment of birth if there is evidence of that offence....
Notification of births
Notification of births. Notice must be sent by post within 36 hours of the birth to the district medical officer of health by the father or person in attendance on the mother. See (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926; the (English) Registration (Births, Stillbirths, Deaths and Marriages) Consolidated Regulations, 1927 and 1930; (English) Registration of Births Regulations, 1929; and (English) Public Health Act, 1936; and BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS....
Place of birth, domicile
Place of birth, domicile, the term 'place of birth' occurs in clause (1) of Article 15 but not 'domicile'. If a comparison is made between Article 15(1) and Article 16(2) of the Constitution of India, it would appear that whereas the former refers to 'place of birth' alone, the latter refers to both 'domicile' and 'residence' apart from place of birth, Saurabh Chaudri v. Union of India, (2003) 11 SC 146 (162). [Constitution of India, Art. 15(1)]...
Birth
Birth, means live-birth or still-birth. [Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 (18 of 1969), s. 2(a)]A complete extrusion of a new born baby from the mother's body; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
birth mother
birth mother : the woman who gave birth to a child esp. as distinguished from the child's adoptive mother ...
Live-birth
Live-birth, means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, and each product of such birth is considered live-born. [Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, s. (d)]...
country of birth
country of birth The country in which a person is born. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Birth
The act or fact of coming into life or of being born generally applied to human beings as the birth of a son...
Registrar of birth and deaths
Registrar of birth and deaths, means a Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed under this Act. Births, Death and Marriages (Registration) Act, 1886 (6 of 1896)]...
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