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Children

Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is

House in the performance of its functions and thereby lower dignity and authority such as disobedience of its legitimate orders or libel upon itself or its member or officers which are called contempt of the House, Practice

Advancement

or even in some cases a moral obligation to provide. It will arise in favour of a wife, legitimate children, and in some cases in regard to persons to whom the purchaser stands in loco parentis, but

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time, are carrying on a criminal intimacy with his wife, a child born under such circumstances is still legitimate': per Alderson, J., in Cope v. Cope, (1833) 5 C&P 604. Neither husband nor wife is admissible as

Legitimist

One who supports legitimate authority esp one who believes in hereditary monarchy as a divine right

Bastard Eigne

thus if a man had a natural son, and afterwards married the mother and by her had a legitimate son, the latter was mulier puisne, and the elder son bastard eigne, Watk. Descent. C. v. See Legitimacy

Legitimacy

The state or quality of being legitimate or in conformity with law hence the condition of having been lawfully begotten or born in wedlock

Lawful

Conformable to law allowed by law legitimate competent

Jacobinism

The principles of the Jacobins violent and factious opposition to legitimate government

Child

daughter a male or female descendant in the first degree the immediate progeny of human parents in law legitimate offspring Used also of animals and plants

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