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in force inspite of non-adoption, see e.g., s. 3 of the (English) Notification of Birth Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 40)(repealed).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