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Child

Child, means any person below the age of eighteen years and includes any adopted, step or foster child. [Protection of Woman from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (43 of 2005), s. 2(b)] Child includes a still-born

Oysters

P. 168), and a claim will lie for damage caused by the discharge of a sewer causing conta-mination, Foster v. Warblington U.D.C., (1906) 1 KB 648.

Misconduct

way inconsistent with due and faithful discharge of his duty in service, it is misconduct, see Pierce v. Foster, 17 QB 536 (542). A disregard of an essential condition of the contract of service may constitute misconduct,

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Light

only against the other tenement, but also against the landlord, Morgan v. Fear, 1907 AC 425, and see Foster v. Lyons & Co., (1927) 1 Ch 219. Consult Goddard or Gale on Easements.

Fosterlean

Fosterlean, the remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster-child; also the jointure of a wife, Jac. Law Dict.

Distress

and general law relating to the subject see Smith's Leading Cases, sub tit. Simpson v. Hartopp; Oldham and foster's Law of Distress; Woodfall's L. and T.; Foa, Landlord and Tenant; and Chit. Stat., tit. 'Landlord and Tenant.'

Costs

in an action may be ordered to pay the defendant's costs of the issues upon which he faisl, Foster v. Farquhar, (1893) 1 QB 564; see also Reid, Hewitt & Co. v. Joseph, 1918 AC 717. County

Advancement

advanced for a purchaser in the name of a wife who had not been legally married, Soar v. Foster, 4 K&J 152 or of a mistress, Rider v. Kidder, 10 Ves 360. A purchase by a parent

Brooke's (Sir Robert) abridgement

order in which they are strung together is very little better, being generally guided only by the chronology, Foster.

Apprentice

that the apprentice has done anything incompatible with faithful service, is a just cause of dismissal, Pearce v. Foster, (1886) 17 QBD 536 CA, and see Learoyd v. Brooks, 1891 (1) QB 431. An infant can bind

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