Infant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Bambino
A child or baby esp a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes
Nursing
Supplying or taking nourishment from or as from the breast as a nursing mother a nursing infant
Apprentice
Pearce v. Foster, (1886) 17 QBD 536 CA, and see Learoyd v. Brooks, 1891 (1) QB 431. An infant can bind himself by a deed of apprenticeship, Green v. Thompson, 1899 (2) QB 1. With regard to
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Nursling
One who or that which is nursed an infant a fondling
Curator bonis
a person appointed by the Court of Session to manage and preserve property until the owner, e.g., an infant, is in a position to act for himself, Bell's Dict.
Conversion, equitable
an election. The nature of the property cannot be altered by the election of a trustee or an infant. Before 1926 money equitably converted into land descended to the heir upon an intestacy and land converted into
Birth, Concealing
she can lawfully be convicted of concealment of birth if there is evidence of that offence. The (English) Infanticide Act, 1922, s. 1(4), provides for such a finding in the case of the acquittal of a woman
Betting
betting; and by the (English) Betting and Loans (Infants) Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 4), soliciting infants by circular, etc., to bet is made a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment or fine, or both. Betting duties
Avail of marriage
maritagii, Lat.], the right of marriage, which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony. A guardian in socage had also the same right, but not attended with the same
Common employment
Erle, C.J., Potter v. Faulkner, (1861) 1 B&S 806. It seems that if the injured person be an infant of such tender years as to make it unreasonable to assume that he wittingly undertook the risk of
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