Infant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Chancery
vendors and purchasers of real estates, including contracts for leases; partition or sale of real estates; wardship of infants and care of their estates and many other matters assigned by Statute, e.g., (English) Companies (Companies Act, 1929),
Conveyancing Acts (English)
of 1881 related inter alia to contracts, conveyances, mortgages, leases, dispositions by married women, or on behalf of infants or other persons under incapacity.
County Courts
lease of property, or under the (English) Trustee Relief Acts,or Trustee Acts, or relating to the maintenance of infants,or for the dissolution of partnership, or for relief against fraud or mistake, provided ineach of these actions that
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Negligence
the want of slight diligence. A smaller degree of negligence will render a person liable for injury to infants than in the case of adults, see Cooke v. Midland Great Western Railway, 1909 AC 229; and Glasgow
Foundling-hospitals
Foundling-hospitals, charitable institutions which exist in most countries for taking care of infants forsaken by their parents, such being generally the offspring of illegal connections. The (English) Founding Hospital Act is
Maintenance
and by 32 Hen. 8, c. 9, by a forfeiture of 10l. See CHAMPERTY. As to maintenance of infants and persons until they attain a vested interest if they are entitled to the intermediate income or otherwise
Parens patriae
guardianship over various classes of persons, who, from their legal disability, stand in need of protection, such as infants, idiots, and lunatics.
Portion
and Elphinstone, Notes to Real Settlements. Settlements of portions usually contain a provision for hotchpot and maintenance of infants and advancement of capital before the period of vesting or distribution. Interest is payable on portions from the
Pediatrics
That branch of medical science which treats of the hygiene and diseases of infants and children
Pedobaptism
The baptism of infants or of small children
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