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legitimate portion

legitimate portion : legitime ...


legitimate filiation

legitimate filiation in the civil law of Louisiana : filiation created by a child being born during a marriage or adopted ...


Legitimate

Legitimate, access and non-access connote existence and non-existence of opportunities for marital intercourse, Chilukuri Venkateswarlu v. Chilukuri Venkatanarayana, AIR 1954 SC 176 (177): 1954 SCR 424....


Legitimate child

Legitimate child, one between whose parents subsisted the relation of marriage either at time of procreation or of birth, or at some intervening or subsequent period....


Maintenance

Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it; both actionable and indictable [see Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, (1883) 11 QBD 1], and invalidates contracts involving it. By the Roman Law it was a species of crimen falsi to enterin to any confederacy, or do any act to support another's law-suits, by money, witnesses, or patronage, 4 Bl. Com. 134.It is either ruralis, in the country as where one assists another in his pretensions to lands, by taking or holding the possession of them for him; or where one stirs up quarrels or suits in the country; or it is curialis, in a Court of justice, where one officiously intermeddles in a suit depending in any court, which does not belong to him, and with which he has nothing to do, 2 Rol. Abr. 115. Maintaining suits in the spiritual courts is not within the statutes relating to maintenance, Cro. Eliz. 549. A man may, however, maintain a suit in...


filiation

filiation [Late Latin filiatio relationship of a son and father, from Latin filius son] 1 : a legal relationship of a parent and esp. a father and child that creates rights and obligations [used to help prove in a paternity suit "LeBlanc v. LeBlanc, 427 So. 2d 1361 (1986)"] see also legitimate filiation compare acknowledgment, paternity NOTE: The Louisiana Supreme Court has held that children not entitled to legitimate filiation to the alleged parent, or not legitimated or formally acknowledged by the alleged parent, may establish filiation in a filiation proceeding. This has led to some instances where the legitimate children of one father have been allowed to prove filiation to another father. Such an action does not make the children illegitimate but does create a status of dual paternity. 2 : adjudication of paternity or filiation [the court has made an order of "Idaho Code"] ...


Bastard

Bastard [fornication], one born not of lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)]The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if the parents afterwards intermarried, but a proposal by the bishops to assimilate the law of England to the canon law in this respect was rejected by Parliament in 1235. See MERTON, STATUTE OF. The law of England remained thus for nearly 700 years, until the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), legitimated a child born out of wedlock upon the subsequent marriage of parents if they were domiciled in England or Wales at the date of marriage. See LEGITIMATION. In Scotland, however, and in most other Christian countries, including most, if not all, of the British Dominions, and most, if not all, of the United States of America, legitimation of the children has always followed the intermarriage of the parents.The mother of a bastard cannot validly contract with another person for the transfer to tha...


Son or daughter of such female

Son or daughter of such female, the son or daughter of a male vendor referred to in s. 15(1) only means the legitimate issue of the vendor. The words son or daughter mean only a legitimate son and a legitimate daughter of the female, Gulraj Singh v. Mota Singh, AIR 1965 SC 608 (610). [Punjab pre-emption Act, 1913 (as amended by Act (10 of 1960), s. 15(2)(b)]...


Scots law

Scots law is mainly derived from the Civil Law, and differs in many points from the English, as by assuring a man's widow and children two-thirds of his personal property (see LEGITIM), and by the legitimation of children born before marriage (see LEGITIMATION)....


Natural child

Natural child, the child in fact, the child of one's body. Some children are both the natural and legitimate offspring of a marriage, i.e., those duly born in wedlock. Some are the legitimate but not the natural offspring of a marriage, i.e., those who are born in wedlock, and never bastardized, although begotten in adultery and in fact the natural children of a stranger. See Shakespeare's King John, Act i., sc. 1. [Indian Succession Act]Some are natural children only; i.e., bastards, born out of wedlock, and those born in wedlock, who are bastardized, and hence the word is popularly more often used as though it were simply equivalent to bastard. See LEGTIMATION; BASTARD and BASTARDIZE....



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