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Abandonment
s. 7; and as to abandoned canals, see (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, s. 45; also CHILDREN; RAILWAYS; DISCONTINUANCE.
Aberdeen Act
87), enabling the owners of entailed estates in Scotland to grant provisions to their wives or husbands and children. See TAIL.
Adeling, Ethling, or Edling
or Edling ['delan, Sax.], noble, excellency. A title of honour among the Anglo-Saxons, properly belonging to the king's children, Spelm. Glos
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Adoption society
a body of persons whose functions consist of or include the making of arrangements for the adoption of children, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(3), 2001, 4th Edn., Para 506 Note 5, p. 244.
Advancement
even in some cases a moral obligation to provide. It will arise in favour of a wife, legitimate children, and in some cases in regard to persons to whom the purchaser stands in loco parentis, but it
Bastardy-bonds
Bastardy-bonds, to indemnify parishes as to natural children likely to be born, made void by the (English) Poor Law Amendment Act,1834 (4 & 5 Wm. 4,
Advisory board
level advisory board, as the case may be, constituted under s. 62. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2 (a)]
Agnates, agnati, or adgnati
relations by the mother's. An agnate is related by generation; thus, my son, brother, paternal uncle, and their children, as also my daughter and sister, are agnated to me. See Smith's Dict. Of Antiq.; Maine's Ancient Law.
Antenati
2 Cl & F 571; 7 ib. 895; but he could take as devisee under a devise to children [Re Grey's Trusts, (1892) 3 Ch 88]. See Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60),
Antipelargia
Antipelargia, an ancient law whereby children were obliged to furnish necessaries to their aged parents. The ciconia, or stork, is a bird famous for
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