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highchair
a chair designed for feeding a very young child having four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray which rests in front of the child holds the food and also serves as a restraint...
legitimate
legitimate [Medieval Latin legitimatus, past participle of legitimare to give legal status to, from Latin legitimus legally sanctioned, from leg-, lex law] 1 : conceived or born of parents lawfully married to each other or having...
abuse
abuse abused abus·ing 1 : to put to a use other than the one intended: as a : to put to a bad or unfair use [abusing the powers of office] b : to put to...
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Contingent remainder
Contingent remainder, a remainder limited so as to depend on an event or condition which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding...
Law Reform (UK)
Law Reform (UK). By the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens...
Annus luctus
Annus luctus, the year of mourning, during which the widow, by 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,...
Close relative
Close relative, of a deceased or retiring tenant is the deceased or retiring tenant's wife, husband, brother, sister or child, or other person treated as a child of the family, Agricultural Holdings Act, 1986, s. 35(2)...
Confinement
Confinement, means labour resulting in the issue of a living child, or labour after twenty-six weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of a child whether alive or dead. [Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of...
Derivative settlement
Derivative settlement, in Poor Law that settlement (see SETTLEMENT) which a poor person may acquire from his parent's settlement. The (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 85, enacts:- (1) Until a...
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