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legalize

legalize -ized -iz·ing : to make legal ;esp : to give legal validity or sanction to le·gal·i·za·tion n le·gal·iz·er n ...

legitimize

legitimize -mized -miz·ing : legalize legitimate ...

Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany, where the civil law (as to which, see Sand. Just.) prevails to any great extent. In 1889 and 1890, Lord Meath introduced Bills in the House of Lords to legalize adoption.By the (English) Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 29), after the 31st December, 1925, the Court (usually in the Chancery Division) may authorize the adoption of an infant who is under twenty-one years of age, a British subject, and resident in England and Wales, by an applicant who is more than twenty-five years of age, and also twenty-one years older than the infant, unless closely related, and a British subject, resident and domiciled in England or Wales, but a single adopter, only, will be authorized unless two spouses jointly apply. A male may not adopt a female infant unless the court finds special reason...

Arrangements between debtors and creditors

Arrangements between debtors and creditors. The 125th and 126th sections of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869, which repealed an Act of 1861, allowed liquidation by arrangement and composition with creditors by resolutions passed at similar representative meetings to take the place of proceedings in bankruptcy. The (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, having repealed the Act of 1869 without re-enacting these clauses, arrangements with creditors outside the law of bankruptcy became common, and in order to legalize and regulate these arrangements, the (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1887, was passed and amended in 1890 by 53 & 54 Vict. c. 24. The law has now been consolidated by the (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 47), which repeals the Act of 1887, and also parts of the Bankruptcy and (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1913, and contains practically the whole statute law on the subject. The Act is divided into five parts: (1) defining the deeds of arrangement...

Metric system

Metric system, a system (adopted in every European country except our own and Russia) in numbering of coinage, weights, measures, etc., wherein the integer is divided into fractions of a tenth, hundredth, etc., and no others. Contracts are not invalid on the ground that the weights or measures expressed therein are of the metric system. See s. 21 of the (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878 which has taken the place of the repealed (English) Metric Weights and Measures Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 117), which recited that 'for the promotion and extension of our internal as well as our foreign trade, it was expedient to legalize the use of the metric system of weights and measures.' The Act of 1878, however, not authorizing the physical use of metric weights and measures, such physical use is expressly authorized by the (English) Weights and Measures (Metric System) Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 46)....

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