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Home Dictionary Name: motherly Page: 2Father and mother
Father and mother, The father or mother mentioned in sub-s. (1) of s. 9 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 must necessarily mean the natural father and the natural mother, Dhanraj v. Suraj Bai, AIR 1975 SC 1103: (1975) Supp SCR 73: (1975) 2 SCC 251. [Hindu Adoptions and Main-tence Act, 1956, s. 9(1)]...
birth mother
birth mother : the woman who gave birth to a child esp. as distinguished from the child's adoptive mother ...
Mother Goose
The supposed author of a book of nursery rhymes first published as ldquoMother Gooses Melodiesrdquo and usually called simply ldquoMother Gooserdquo The first English edition is said to have been printed in 1719 in London The actual persons who composed the rhymes is unknown and earlier similar rhymes in French are a likely source for some of them Mother Goose is also used as the title of a book of Mother Goose rhymes...
Mothers Day
A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness visit tribute or letter The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia who designated the second Sunday in May or for schools the second Friday as the time and a white carnation as the badge...
Mother-church
Mother-church [primaria ecclesia, Lat.]. see MATRIX ECCLESIA....
Mothering
Mothering, a custom of visiting parents on Mid-Lent Sunday, Jac. Law Dict...
Mother in law
The mother of ones husband or wife...
Mothered
Thick like mother viscid...
Mothering
A rural custom in England of visiting ones parents on Midlent Sunday supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar...
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...
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