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Natural infancy
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Guardianship
Guardianship. The care of and responsibility for a person of non-age or infancy in regard to its person or property, or both. At Common Law, the father is the guardian by … in regard to its person or property, or both. At Common Law, the father is the guardian by nature and nurture but the rights and duties relating to that office have been modified in favour of the
Merits, affidavit of
strictly moral and conscientious defences; and defences of the Statute of Frauds or Limitations, and of Bankruptcy and Infancy, are defences on the merits, 2 Chit. Arch. Prac. … set aside, for irregularity, a judgment signed or other proceeding. The term 'merits,' in an affidavit of this nature, is to be read in a technical sense, and is not to be understood to be confined to
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Guardian
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 … who has legal authority and duty to care for another's person or property esp. because of the others infancy, incapacity or disability, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Tenure
reliefs or payments upon succession aids, or contributions to the lord, wardships and marriage of heirs succeeding in infancy and escheat. Grand serjeanty was another species of tenure which some writes think was superior to knight-service, whereby … service; or improper, which did not, in point of acquisition, services, and the like, strictly conform to the nature of a mere military feud, such as those that were sold and bartered for any equivalent, or granted
Disability
acts by statutory bodies or corporations in excess of their statutory powers, see ULTRA VIRES; (2) partial, as infancy, coverture, lunacy, and drunkenness. As to which, see the various titles relating thereto. The compulsory purchase, by railway … Chanji v. House Insurance Co., AIR 1974 SC 1719 (1722). Means where the disablement is of a temporary nature, such disablement as reduces the earning capacity of a woman in any employment in which he was engaged
Perpetuity
Tem Talb 228 (1736)], and twenty-one years from the death of the surviving life, without reference to the infancy of any person who is to take under the limitations, or of any other person, allowance for gestation … tail, they will be void, because limited to arise on an indefinite failure of issue. (2) Limitation the nature of whose subject-matter is such as to render it necessary for them to take effect, if at all,
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