Half Sister - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: half sisterHalf-brother, half-sister
Half-brother, half-sister, a brother or sister by the father's or mother's side only. Marriage with a half-sister of a deceased wife or half-brother of a deceased husband has been legalized; see Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Acts, 1907-1931...
Half sister
A sister by one parent only...
Sister
A female who has the same parents with another person or who has one of them only In the latter case she is more definitely called a half sister The correlative of brother...
Dependant and dependent
Dependant and dependent. Under s. 4 of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925:--(1) The dependants of a workman entitled to claim compensation under this Act where the injury results in death are such of the members of the workman's family as were wholly or in part dependent upon the earnings of the workman at the time of his death, or would but for the incapacity due to the accident, have been so dependent, and where the workman, being the parent or grand-parent of an illegitimate child, leaves such a child so dependent upon his earn-ings, or, being an illegitimate child, leaves a parent or grandparent so dependent upon his earnings, shall include such an illegitimate child and parent or grandparent respectively.(2) A person shall not be deemed to be a partial dependant of another person unless he was dependent partially on contributions from that other person for the provision of the ordinary necessaries of life suitable for persons in his class and position.(3) 'Member of a family' me...
Nephew
Nephew [fr. nepos, Lat.], (1) the son of a brother or sister, or half-brother or half-sister; (2) in special cases, a great-nephew, Weeds v. Bristow, (1866) LR 2 Eq 333, or nephew by marriage, Sherratt v. Mountford, (1873) LR 8 Ch 928, and even an illegitimate nephew (In the goods of Ashton, 1892, P. 83)....
Half blood
The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother but not of both as a brother or sister of the half blood See Blood n 2 and 4...
Incest
Incest, carnal knowledge of persons within the Levitical degrees of kindred, at one time a capital offence (4 Bl. Com. 65); but subsequently left to the action of the spiritual courts, 4 Steph. Com. It is now within certain relationships, whether legitimate or illegitimate, including a half-brother and half-sister, a misdemeanor, punishable by seven years' penal servitude by virtue of the Punishment of Incest Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 45). See R. v. Ball, 1911 AC 47. Sect. 5 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, repeals the provision in the Act of 1908 which necessitated the trial of all proceedings under that Act being held in camera (q.v.).Means sexual relations between family members or close relatives, including children related by adoption. Incest was not a crime under English common law but was punished as an ecclesiastical offense. Modern statutes make it a felony, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 764....
Sisterly
Like a sister becoming a sister affectionate as sisterly kindness sisterly remorse...
Hyades
The seven daughters of Atlas and half sisters of the Pleiades they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward...
Sisters
Sisters. Lord Coke says, omnes sorores sunt quasi unus h'res-all sisters are, as it were, one heir. See COPARCENERS....
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