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Advancement
Advancement, promotion; additional price. An advancement clause in a settlement or will is a provision authorizing the trustees, with the consent of the tenant for life, to pay by anticipation a limited portion of the share...
Age
Age, the criminal responsibility of males and females, and their power to do certain acts, depends upon their age. A child under 7 cannot commit any offence; between the ages of 7 and 14 is presumed...
Maintenance
Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it; both actionable and indictable [see Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, (1883) 11...
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Paternity
Paternity. The general rule is that 'pater vero is est quem nupti' demonstrant' (Dig. Lib. 2, tit. 4, 1. 5). For a discussion of the law on the subject of paternity and the cases in which...
Half-timer
Half-timer. A child, who, by the operation of the Factory and Education Acts, was employed for less than the full time in a factory or workshop, in order that he might attend some 'recognized efficient school.'...
nuisance
nuisance [Anglo-French nusaunce, from Old French nuire to harm, from Latin nocēre] : something (as an act, object, or practice) that invades or interferes with another's rights or interests (as the use or enjoyment of property)...
Education
Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the history of the provision by legislation of a general system of education. Before this date education...
Infant
Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE. At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided...
Murder
Murder [fr. morthor, morthen, Sax.; murdrum, Low Lat.]. It is thus defined by Coke (3 Inst. 47): 'When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, with malice aforethought, either...
Natale
Natale, means the status a person acquires by birth. For example, if one or both parents of a child were serfs, the child was generally regarded as a serf, and a child born free rarely became...
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