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Adoption
1890, Lord Meath introduced Bills in the House of Lords to legalize adoption. By the (English) Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 29), after the 31st December, 1925, the Court (usually in
Hotchpot
given into hotchpots. As to personality. The State of Distributions (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), intended children to take equal shares of the goods and chattels of their intestate ancestor, and it considered that there
Marriage settlement
the daughters in tail, the limitations formerly legal being now equitable, and the wife or husband and younger children being respectively provided for by a jointure or determinable life interest and portions charged on the estates. (2)
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Distribution, Statute of
manner: one-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if there be no children or legal
Intoxicating liquor
They are subject to penalties for permitting drunkenness or gaming for harbouring constables or prostitutes, for sale to children under 14 (see CHILDREN), and other offences (ss. 65-85). In some cases a convic-tion entails forfeiture of the
Education
established 'school boards' with powers of building and maintaining elementary schools and of regulating the attendance of school children between the ages of 5 and 13. The El. Ed. Act, 1876, declared 'the duty of the parent
Factory
& 38 Vict. c. 44 (the Factory Act, 1874), by which the labour of women, young persons, and children had been from time to time regulated, the education of children indirectly attained, and the fencing of machinery
special immigrants
lost citizenship by serving in foreign armed forces; ministers of religion and other religious workers, their spouses and children; certain employees and former employees of the U.S. Government abroad, their spouses and children; Panama Canal Act immigrants;
Bastard
of the British Dominions, and most, if not all, of the United States of America, legitimation of the children has always followed the intermarriage of the parents. The mother of a bastard cannot validly contract with another
Child in need of care and protection
likelihood of the threat being carried out, or (b) has killed, abused or neglected some other child or children and there is a reasonable likelihood of the child in question being killed, abused or neglected by that
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