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Popgun

A childs gun a tube and rammer for shooting pellets with a popping noise by compression of air

mammy

A childs name for mamma mother

Peekaboo

A childs game bopeep

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Pushpin

A childs game played with pins

Children

Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v.

Adoption

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

Infanticide

Infanticide, means (1) The act of killing a newborn child, esp. by the parents or with their consent, in archaic usage, the word referred also to the killing

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

Vaccination

& 31 Vict. c. 84). By the Act it was provided, inter alia, that the parent of every child born in England should within three months after the birth of such child, or where by reason of

Birth, Concealing

any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of a child, whether such child died before, at, or after his birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be

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