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Child marriage

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Legitimate child

Matched in: Term Legitimate child

Bastard

Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if the parents afterwards intermarried, but a proposal by the bishops to assimilate the … Bastard [fornication], one born not of lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws

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Adoption

in lawful wedlock, inter alia in regard to custody, maintenance and education, appointment of guardians or consent or marriage, and the child assumes the same relation to the adopter, e.g., in regard to liability for the latter's … Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other

Maintenance

treatment; (ii) in the case of an unmarried daughter, also the reasonable expenses of an incident to her marriage. [Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 (78 of 1956), s. 3 (b)] The cost of education till the … on Trusts, and Wolst. And Cherry, Conveyancing Statutes. As a rule, powers or trusts for the maintenance of children and accumulation of the residue of income were included in all carefully drafted settlements and wills. 'Maintenance' must

Natural child

Matched in: Term Natural child

Child

Matched in: Term Child

legitimation

legitimation The legal process which a natural father can use to acknowledge legally his children who were born out of wedlock (outside of marriage). A legitimated child can be a "child" under immigration

parent

1 a : a person who begets or brings forth offspring ;esp : the natural parents of a child born of their marriage NOTE: The biological father of an illegitimate child is usually not considered the child's

Advancement

Distribution), any money or property which has been paid or settled by way of advancement or on the marriage of a child shall, subject to any contrary intention expressed or appearing, be brought into account and taken … even in some cases a moral obligation to provide. It will arise in favour of a wife, legitimate children, and in some cases in regard to persons to whom the purchaser stands in loco parentis, but it

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