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Accident occasioned by negligence

of damages for injuries in such cases, see NEGLIGENCE. As to the rights of wife, husband, parent or child of person killed in such an accident, see CAMPBELL'S (LORD) ACT. Any adopted or illegitimate person is included

Childly

Having the character of a child belonging or appropriate to a child

Alien

(ss. 10-28) containing certain general and supplemental provisions, relating to the national status of married women and infant children, loss of British Nationality, the status of aliens, and procedure and evidence. The effect of the Act is

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Affiliation

for Minorities Educational Institutions Act, 2004, s. 2(a)] --the fixing any one with the paternity of a bastard child and the obligation to maintain it. The process is regulated by the (English) Bastardy Acts, 1845, 1872, and

Accumulation

grantor, or other persons. See Re Heathcote, (1904) 1 Ch 826; or (2) For raising portions for any child or remoter issue of the grantor, settlor or testator, or any child or remoter issue of any person

Annus luctus

the ordinances of the Civil Law, could not marry, to prevent the inconvenience of a widow bearing a child which, by the period of gestation, might be the child either of her deceased or her present husband,

Access

Access, approach, or the means of approaching. The presumption of a child's legitimacy is rebutted, if it be shown by strong, distinct, satisfactory, and conclusive evidence, see Atchley v. Sprigg,

Oaf

Originally an elfs child a changeling left by fairies or goblins hence a deformed or foolish child a simpleton an idiot

Infanticide

The murder of an infant born alive the murder or killing of a newly born or young child child murder

Grandchild

A sons or daughters child a child in the second degree of descent

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