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Home Dictionary Name: boyBoy scout
Orig a member of the ldquoBoy Scoutsrdquo an organization of boys founded in 1908 by Sir R S S Baden Powell to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental moral industrial and physical activities etc Hence a member of any of the other similar organizations which are now worldwide In ldquoThe Boy Scouts of Americardquo the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner under whose supervision are scout masters each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each who are of three classes tenderfoot second class scout and first class scout...
Boys
Boys, employment of, in factories, workshops, etc. See CHILDREN; FACTORY. As to the employment of boys in mines below ground, see Coal Mines Act, 1911, ss. 91-95, and s. 102 (7)....
mamas boy
Same as mammas boy...
Sea boy
A boy employed on shipboard...
Bad-boy provision
Bad-boy provision, means a statutory or regulatory clause in a blue-sky law stating that certain persons, because of their past conduct, are not entitled to any type of exemption from registering their securities. Such clauses typically prohibit issuers, officers, directors, control persons, or broker dealers from being involved in a limited offering if they have been the subject of an adverse proceeding concerning securities, commodities or postal fraud, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 134....
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A serving boy formerly a youth attending a person of high degree especially at courts as a position of honor and education now commonly in England a youth employed for doing errands waiting on the door and similar service in households in the United States a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress...
Children
Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 107, as meaning, for the purposes of the Act, a person under fourteen years of age. The (English) Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 47), makes provisions for Scotland similar to those of the corresponding English Act.Registration of Birth, and Vaccination.--It is the duty, by s. 1 of the (English) Births and Deaths Registration act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88), of the father and mother of very child born alive, and in their default of other persons (see BIRTHS), to give information to the registrar within forty two days; the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 2 and 3, provides for compulsory notification of births to the Medical Officer of Health (see BIRTHS), and the child must be vaccinat...
Boyhood
The state of being a boy the time during which one is a boy...
Boyish
Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions belonging to a boy childish trifling puerile...
VerbarGarccedilon
A boy fellow esp a serving boy or man a waiter in Eng chiefly applied to French waiters...
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