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Adoption

of a child as if born to the adopter in lawful wedlock, inter alia in regard to custody, maintenance and education, appointment of guardians or consent or marriage, and the child assumes the same relation to the

gross

: overall total exclusive of deductions in gross 1 : as a lump sum see also lump sum alimony at alimony 2 : independently existing, belonging to a person, and not attached to land see also easement

Contingent legacy

guides to construction, e.g., in general, a gift of interest in the interim or a direction to pay maintenance points to a vested and not a contingent gift and where a previous interest is given to one

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gross income

gains derived from dealings in property; (4) interest; (5) rents; (6) royalties; (7) dividends; (8) alimony and separate maintenance payments; (9) annuities; (10) income from life insurance and contracts for endowment insurance; (11) pensions; (12) income from

Acquiesce

(1) applicable to acquisition of property by inheritance or devise or at a partition or in lieu of maintenance or arrears of maintenance or by gift or by a female's own skill or exertion or by purchase

palimony

a form of alimony paid to a former partner in a romantic relationship after a period of living together even though the

Aliment

Aliment [fr. alimentum, Lat.], a fund for maintenance-alimony, Scots Law.

Appanage, or Apanage

to nourish], (1) the provision of lands of feudal superiorities assigned by the Kings of France for the maintenance of their younger sons. (2) The allowance assigned to the prince of a reigning house for a proper

Appropriate authority

of Misuse) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (a)] Means, in relation to a bridge for the maintenance of which a bridge authority is responsible, or a road passing over such a bridge, the bridge authority;

Champarty or champerty

Edw. 1, st. , c. 9; and 32 Hen. 8, c. 9. It is an aggravated form of maintenance, See Hutley v. Hutley, (1873) LR 8 Q 112; Attorneys and Solicitors Act (in re:), 1870 (1875) 1

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