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child labor law

child labor law : a law regulating or prohibiting the employment of a person who is below a specified age

Exposing Child

Exposing Child, under the age of two years. See (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 27. See also (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 4...

Mondays Child

A child who is fair of face a reference to a nineteenth century poem See below

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child tax credit

child tax credit A tax credit available to people with children under the age of seventeen.

child abuse

child abuse : abuse

Child-stealing

Child-stealing. See the (English) Offences against the Person Act,1861, s. 56, which applies to children under fourteen, and punishes decoying either by force or fraud.

Bastard

A ldquonaturalrdquo child a child begotten and born out of wedlock an illegitimate child one born of an illicit union

mammothrept

A child brought up by its grandmother a spoiled child

Orphan

A child bereaved of both father and mother sometimes also a child who has but one parent living

Alumnus

Alumnus, a child which one has nursed; a foster-child, Dig. 40, 2, 14; Civil Law. One educated at a college or seminary is called an alumnus thereof.

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