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Fit person
Fit person, means a person, being a social worker or any other person, who is prepared to own the responsibility of a child and is found fit by the competent authority to receive and take care...
Guardian
Guardian, means a person having the care of the person of a minor or his property or of both his person and property, and includes: (i) a natural guardian, (ii) a guardian appointed by the will...
In judicio non creditur nisi juratis
In judicio non creditur nisi juratis [Lat.], in judicial procedure there is no credit, save to things sworn. In judicio non creditur nisi juratis. Cro. Car. 54.--(In a trial credence is given only to those who...
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Paedo-corpus juris
Paedo-corpus juris, a body of law wholly made for children and child rights, 'No socially important legislation can fulfill itself without the mobilization of the society who legal mobilization is the catalyst tor paedo corpus-juris' [A...
London
London, the metropolis of England. for a short account of early London, see 3 Hallam, Mid. Ages, p. 219. The 'city' of London, which is not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, contains only 671 acres...
Non-access
Non-access. When a husband could not, in the course of nature, by reason of his absence, have been the father of his wife's child, the child is a bastard. Access is presumed during wedlock; but this...
Orphan
Orphan, a fatherless child or minor, or one deprived of both father and mother. The Lord Chancellor is the general guardian of all orphans and minors throughout the realm. See GUARDIANSHIP; WARD OF COURT. By the...
Public health
Public health. The first (English) Public Health Act was passed in 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63); this was an adoptive Act not applying to London, and forms the foundation of modern sanitary legislation. It...
Rape
Rape, extends also to the forcible sexual intercourse by a woman with a man, as well as the offence of rape as defined in the Indian Penal Code speaks only of forcible sexual intercourse by a...
Satisfaction
Satisfaction, legal compensation; the recompense for an injury done, or the payment of money due and owing. See ACCORD. The giving of something with the intention, express or implied, that it is to extinguish some existing...
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