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Age

marriage solemnized or contracted before the passing of the Act or in Scotland any right or capacity of legitimation per subsequens matrimonium. There is no age in law at which a man is presumed to be too

Bastard Eigne

puisne, and the elder son bastard eigne, Watk. Descent. C. v. See Legitimacy Act, 1926 (c. 60) and LEGITIMATION.

Institutions

over their children, is treated of; after which is shown the manner of acquiring paternal power--viz., by marriage, legitimation, and adoption, and how that power may be lost. Title XIII to the end of the first book

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Law Reform (UK)

nature of unliquidated damages arising otherwise than by a contract, promise or breach of trust. See further, ADOPTION; LEGITIMATION; BASTARDY; FUNERAL EXPENSES; also INTEREST and LIMITATIONS. The (English) Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act,1935 (25 &

Legitimacy Declaration Act, 1858 (English)

also (English) Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16& 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), applying the 1858Act in cases also of legitimation by subsequent marriage of parents and giving jurisdiction therein to the County Court.

McDonnell Douglas test

and suffered an averse employment action. If the plaintiff satisfies that burden, then the defendant must articulate a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for the employment action complained of. If the defendant satisfies that burden, then the plaintiff must

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

Justum non est aliquem post mortem facere bastardum qui toto tempore vita sua pro legitimo habebatur [Lat.], It is not just to make anyone a bastard after his death when for his whole

Lying-in hospitals

Lying-in hospitals, charities which could not be established without a previous licence from the quarter sessions; legitimate children born in them are not to be chargeable to the parish of their births, 13 Geo. 3,

Limited estate

'limited owner', connote a right in the property to which the possession of the female Hindu may be legitimately traced, that which is not a full right of ownership, Gulwant Kaur (Smt) v. Mohinder Singh, AIR 1987

Legal right

8 SCC 296. Legal rights of spouses and children in Scotland. See TERCE; COURTESY; JUS RELICT'; JUS RELICTI; LEGITIM.

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