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Majority

minor comes of age in the eye of the law on the day preceding the anniversary of his birth. 2. The grater number. In a deliberative body, questions are ordinarily decided by a majority of those present

Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium

not if the other person was married to a third person at the time of the illegitimate person's birth. It further provides for declarations of legitimacy, the rights of legitimated persons to take interests in property, succession,

Legitimate child

Legitimate child, one between whose parents subsisted the relation of marriage either at time of procreation or of birth, or at some intervening or subsequent period.

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Jus soli

Jus soli, means 'right of the soil'. The rule that a child's citizenship is determined by place of birth, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 868.

Jury of matrons

plea; should they bring in their verdict that the prisoner is enceinte, the execution is stayed until the birth of the child, after which, as a rule, the Crown commutes the punishment.

Institutions

slaves is the same, but it is not so with free men, of whom some are free by birth, others by emancipation. The second Division of Persons begins at Title VIII. of the first book, and is

Idiocy

1222; See also Usha v. Abraham, AIR 1988 Ker 96. Means the condition of a person who, from birth, has never had any glimmering of reasoning or intellectual faculties, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 748.

Hindu joint family and coparcenary

coparcenary is a much narrower body than the joint family: it includes only those person who acquire by birth an interest in the joint or coparcenary property, these being the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of the holder

Adoptive Act of Parliament

Act may be put in force inspite of non-adoption, see e.g., s. 3 of the (English) Notification of Birth Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 40)(repealed). See (English) P. H. Act, 1936.

Multiparous

Producing many or more than one at a birth

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