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Maieutics

The art of giving birth i e clearness and conviction to ideas which are conceived as struggling for birth

En ventre sa mere

or manslaughter charge, but otherwise if it receives injuries whilst in the womb which occasion its death after birth, R. v. Senior, (1832) 1 Moo CC 346. In civil matters also the fiction of birth is only

Nativity

The coming into life or into the world birth also the circumstances attending birth as time place manner etc

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Age

female is 21 years, which age is completed on the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary or a person's birth. By s. 1(1) 5 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, a legal estate in land is

Concealment (Criminal)

Concealment (Criminal). (1) Of birth, see BIRTH. (2) Of documents of title to land, or of testamentary instruments, felony by (English) Larceny Act,

Coparcenary

Coparcenary, A Hindu coparcenary is narrower body than the joint family. Only males who acquire the birth an interest in the joint or coparcenary property can be members of the coparcenary or coparceners. A male

Superintendent Registrar

Superintendent Registrar, an officer who superin-tends the registers of births, deaths, and marriages. There was one in every poor law union in England and Wales. The office was

Public health

of Persons Act, 1897; Isolation of Hospitals Acts, 1893 and 1901; Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927; Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915; Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918; Part I. of the Children Act, 1908, and

birthrate

the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area usually expressed as birthes per 1000 population per year

Marriage

must enter the particulars of the marriage in the register according to the form laid down in the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), the entry to be signed by

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