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Child, means any person below the age of eighteen years and includes any adopted, step or foster child. [Protection of Woman from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (43 of 2005), s. 2(b)]Child includes a still-born child. [Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (53 of 1961), s. 3 (b)]Means a person who has not completed fourteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (52 of 1966), s. 2 (b)]Means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (c)]Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (ii)Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (a)]Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (bb)]Means a person who has not completed the age of sixteen years. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) A...
Child in need of care and protection
Child in need of care and protection, s. 2(d) 'child in need of care and protection' means a child-(i) who is found without any home or settled place or abode and without any ostensible means of subsistence, (ii) who resides with a person (whether a guardian of the child or not) and such person-(a) has threatened to kill or injure the child and there is a reasonable likelihood of the threat being carried out, or (b) has killed, abused or neglected some other child or children and there is a reasonable likelihood of the child in question being killed, abused or neglected by that person, (iii) who is mentally or physically challenged orill children or children suffering from terminal diseases or incurable diseases having no one to support or look after, (iv) who has a parent or guardian and such parent or guardian is unfit or incapacitated to exercise control over the child, (v) who does not have parent and no one is willing to take care of or whose parents have abandoned him or who is m...
Child living
Child living. The rule extending the meaning of 'child living' to include for the purposes of the child's benefit a child en ventre sa mere does not apply to s. 21 of the Finance Act, 1920, which provides for certain claimant has a child living at the commencement of a financial year; Jackson v. Voss, 39 TLR 445....
adopted child
adopted child An unmarried child under age 21, who was adopted while under the age of sixteen, and who has been in legal custody and lived with the adopting parent(s) for at least two years. These rules do not apply to orphans adopted by American Citizens. The adoption decree must give the child all the rights of a natural born child. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
battered child syndrome
battered child syndrome : the combination of grave physical injuries (as broken bones and bruises) that results from gross child abuse NOTE: Evidence of battered child syndrome is often used to establish that a child's death was not accidental. ...
child
child pl: chil·dren 1 : a son or daughter of any age and usually including one formally adopted compare issue NOTE: The word child as used in a statute or will is often held to include a stepchild, an illegitimate child, a person for whom one stands in loco parentis, or sometimes a more remote descendant, such as a grandchild. In interpreting the word child as used in a will, the court will try to effectuate the intent of the person who made the will as it can be determined from the language of the will. 2 : a person below an age specified by law : infant minor [assault on a under 16 years of age] compare adult NOTE: A person who is below the statutory age but is married will usually be considered an adult. ...
foster child
foster child A child other than a natural or adopted child who lived with the taxpayer for the entire year and whom the taxpayer treated as his or her own child. ...
Child-bearing
Child-bearing. The English law admits of no presumption as to the time when a woman ceases to bear children, though this enters into most other codes, and the practice of the Courts in treating women of a certain age as past child-bearing is not a rule of law but is a mere rule of convenience in the administration fo estates; there is no legal impossibility in a woman 100 years old bearing a child; see Farwell on Powers, p. 295 and cases there referred to; Co. Litt. 40 b. The possibility of bearing a child after the age of fifty-four was recognized by the Court of Appeal in Corxton v. May, (1878) 9 Ch D 388, in a case where the woman had been married only three years....
Foster child
Foster child, 'Foster Child' need not be the real legitimate child of the person who brings him up. He is essentially the child of another person but is nursed, reared and brought up by another person as his own son, K.V. Muthu v. Angamuthu Ammal, AIR 1997 SC 628 (632): (1997) 2 SCC 53....
Posthumous child
Posthumous child, a child born after its father's death. By 10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 16, such child maytake an estate as if born in its father's lifetime, although there be no limitation to trustees to preserve the contingent remainder to such child. See EN VENTRE SA MERE....
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