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Son
K.V., Muthu v. Angamuthu Ammal, AIR 1997 SC 628 (632): (1997) 2 SCC 53. 1. A person's male child 2. An immediate male descendant 3. An adopted male child or dependent, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. In
Vagrants
or herself in any public place, street, highway, Court, or passage, to beg, or gather alms, or procuring children so to do, see Mathers v. Penfold, (1915) 1 KB 514. (6) Every person relieved, in a workhouse,
Ademption
See Theobald on Wills. The term is also used to denote the satisfaction of a legacy to a child by the testator subsequently giving the child a portion on his or her marriage. See SATISFACTION. Means the
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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
per stirpes
an estate equally among the members of the group of descendants having a particular degree of kinship (as children), with the issue (that is, the offspring) of a deceased member of that group representing the deceased member,
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
tender years exception
to the hearsay rule in some jurisdictions that allows the use of an out-of-court statement by a young child in an abuse or neglect case if the time, content, and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indications
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
adopt
adopt 1 : to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child esp. in compliance with formal legal procedures see also equitable adoption
birth mother
birth mother : the woman who gave birth to a child esp. as distinguished from the child's adoptive mother
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