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Father and mother, The father or mother mentioned in sub-s. (1) of s. 9 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 must necessarily mean the natural father and the natural mother, Dhanraj v. Suraj Bai, AIR 1975 SC 1103: (1975) Supp SCR 73: (1975) 2 SCC 251. [Hindu Adoptions and Main-tence Act, 1956, s. 9(1)]...
Father
Father, 'father', in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adoptive further. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(20)]...
founding father
founding father often cap both Fs : a leading figure in the founding of the U.S. ;specif : a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ...
Father in law
The father of ones husband or wife correlative to son in law and daughter in law...
Fatherly
Like a father in affection and care paternal tender protecting careful...
Step father
Step father, the husband of one's mother by a later marriage, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1425....
Guardianship
Guardianship. The care of and responsibility for a person of non-age or infancy in regard to its person or property, or both. At Common Law, the father is the guardian by nature and nurture but the rights and duties relating to that office have been modified in favour of the mother by the (English) Custody of Infants Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 12, (English) Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 27), and 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 45), and the (English) Custody of Children Act, 1891 (54 Vict. c. 3). The main consideration is the welfare of the child. In modern times, guardians may be said to be of six kinds:-(1) Testamentary.--By 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 8, the father, and by s. 5 of the Act of 1925, both father and mother have an equal right to appoint a guardian by deed or will to act after death respectively either jointly with the survivor or otherwise, as the Court may direct.(2) Maternal.--Under the Acts of 1886 and 1925, s. 4, on the death of the father, the mother, if ...
Pious purpose
Pious purpose, a Hindu father or any other manag-ing member has power to make a gift within reasonable limits of ancestral immovable property for pious purposes but a gift by the father-in-law to the daughter-in-law at the time of marriage cannot by any stretch of reasoning be called a pious pur-poses, Ammathayee v. Kumaresan, AIR 1967 SC 589 (578).Means a gift for charitable and religious purposes. But the court has extended the meaning of 'pious purposes' to cases where a Hindu father makes a gift within reasonable limits of immovable ancestral property to his daughter in fulfilment of an antenuptial promise made on the occasion of the settlement of the terms of her marriage, and the same can also be done by the mother in case the father is dead. The scope of pious purpose does not extend to a gift by a husband to his wife of immovable ancestral property. Even the father-in-law would not be competent to make a gift at the time of the marriage of his daughter-in-law in so far as immov...
legitimation
legitimation The legal process which a natural father can use to acknowledge legally his children who were born out of wedlock (outside of marriage). A legitimated child can be a "child" under immigration law under these conditions: * the legitimation took place according to the law of the child's residence or the father's residence; * the father proved (established) that he is the child's natural father; * the child was under the age of 18; and * the child was in the legal custody of the father who legitimated the child when the legal process of legitimation took place. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Bastard
Bastard [fornication], one born not of lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)]The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if the parents afterwards intermarried, but a proposal by the bishops to assimilate the law of England to the canon law in this respect was rejected by Parliament in 1235. See MERTON, STATUTE OF. The law of England remained thus for nearly 700 years, until the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), legitimated a child born out of wedlock upon the subsequent marriage of parents if they were domiciled in England or Wales at the date of marriage. See LEGITIMATION. In Scotland, however, and in most other Christian countries, including most, if not all, 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 person for the transfer to tha...
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