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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....
Filius populi
Filius populi, a son of the people, a natural child. See Cowel, Law Dict., voce Mulier....
Nullius filius
Nullius filius (the son of nobody, i.e., a natural child). See BASTARD....
legitimation
legitimation The legal process which a natural father can use to acknowledge legally his children who were born out of wedlock (outside of marriage). A legitimated child can be a "child" under immigration law under these conditions: * the legitimation took place according to the law of the child's residence or the father's residence; * the father proved (established) that he is the child's natural father; * the child was under the age of 18; and * the child was in the legal custody of the father who legitimated the child when the legal process of legitimation took place. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Guardian
Guardian, means a person having the care of the person of a minor or his property or of both his person and property, and includes:(i) a natural guardian,(ii) a guardian appointed by the will of the minor's father or mother,(iii) a guardian appointed or declared by court, and(iv) a person empowered to act as such by or under any enactment relating to any court of wards;Explanation.--For the purposes of this clause, any name which is not the name of a country, region or locality of that country shall also be considered as the geographical indication if it relates to a specifies geographical area and is used upon or in relation to particular goods originating from that country, region or locality, as the case may be. [Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 (32 of 1956), s. 4(b)]A guardian is one appointed by the wisdom and policy of the law to take care of a person and his affairs, who by reason of his imbecility and want of understanding is incapable of acting for his own interest (2...
adopted child
adopted child An unmarried child under age 21, who was adopted while under the age of sixteen, and who has been in legal custody and lived with the adopting parent(s) for at least two years. These rules do not apply to orphans adopted by American Citizens. The adoption decree must give the child all the rights of a natural born child. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
foster child
foster child A child other than a natural or adopted child who lived with the taxpayer for the entire year and whom the taxpayer treated as his or her own child. ...
full and final adoption
full and final adoption A legal adoption in which the child receives all the rights of a natural born, legitimate child. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
certificate of citizenship
certificate of citizenship A document issued by the Department of Homeland Security as proof that the person is a U.S. citizen by birth (when born abroad) or derivation (not from naturalization). The Child Citizenship Act of 2001 gives American citizenship automatically to certain foreign-born children of American citizens. These children can apply for certificates of citizenship. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Paternity
Paternity. The general rule is that 'pater vero is est quem nupti' demonstrant' (Dig. Lib. 2, tit. 4, 1. 5). For a discussion of the law on the subject of paternity and the cases in which it may be shown that the child is not that of the husband, see Russell v. Russell, 1924 AC 687; Hubback on Succession, pp. 378 et seq.; Sir Harris Nicolas on Adulterine Bastardy. A husband may give evidence that he had never had intercourse with his wife before the marriage (The Poulett Peerage, 1903, AC 395). It becomes a question, when a widow marries immediately after the death of her husband, and she is delivered of a child at the expiration of ten months from the death of the first husband, as to the paternity of the child. Blackstone and Coke say, that if a man dies, and his widow soon after marries again, and a child is born within such a time as that by the course of nature it might have been the child of either husband in this case he is said to be more than ordinarily legitimate; for he may,...
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