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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...
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...
Posthumous child
Posthumous child, a child born after its father's death. By 10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 16, such child may take an estate as if born in its father's lifetime, although there be no limitation to...
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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.
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...
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...
Child marriage
Child marriage, means a marriage to which either of the contracting parties is a child. [Child Marriage Restraint (English) Act, 1929 (19 of 1929), s. 2 (b)]
Child rights
Child rights, includes to children's rights adopted in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child on the 20th November, 1989 and ratified by the Government of India on the 11th December, 1992. [Commission...
Natural child
Natural child, the child in fact, the child of one's body. Some children are both the natural and legitimate offspring of a marriage, i.e., those duly born in wedlock. Some are the legitimate but not the...
Child concerned
Child concerned, is the child applying for leave, S (A minor) (Adopted Child, Contract) (in re:), (1999) 3 WLR 504.
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