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Legal fiction

must be limited to the purposes for which it is created and not to be extended beyond its legitimate field', K.S. Dharmadatan v. Central Government, AIR 1979 SC 1495: (1979) 4 SCC 204. Legal fiction pre-supposes the

Lawful guardian

that wherever the relationship of a guardian and a ward is established by means which are lawful and legitimate that relationship is intended to be included, State v. Ramji Vithal Chaudhari, AIR 1958 Bom 381 (384). The

Justum non est aliquem post mortem facere bastardum qui toto tempore vita sua pro legitimo habebatur

to make anyone a bastard after his death when for his whole life he was taken to be legitimate.

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Issue

Issue [fr. exitus, Lat.], used in several senses:-(1) The legitimate offspring of parents. The word 'issue' in a will was either a word of purchase or of limitation,

Incest

left to the action of the spiritual courts, 4 Steph. Com. It is now within certain relationships, whether legitimate or illegitimate, including a half-brother and half-sister, a misdemeanor, punishable by seven years' penal servitude by virtue of

Mulier

Mulier, (1) a woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child, 1 Inst. 243

Tail

Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 3, in tracing descents under entailed interests created after the date of legitimation, a legitimated person will rank according to seniority next after all children born legitimate on the day of his or

Occupant

else, Upper Ganges Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Khalil-ul-Rahman, AIR 1961 SC 143: (1961) 1 SCR 564. It is legitimate to conclude that even a Jagirdar or a Muafidar is an occupant, Maulana Shamsuddin v. Khushilal, AIR 1978

Pallio cooperire

a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnised. It was in the nature of adoption. The children were legitimate by the Civil, but not by the Common, Law, Jac. Law Dict. see BASTARD.

Parent

of the child or young person'; and for the purpose of vaccination, the father and mother of a legitimate child, the mother of an illegitimate child, and any person having its custody, Vaccination Act of 1867, s.

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