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Prerogative courts

Prerogative courts. The two archbishops have each of them a prerogative Court. The appeal is to the Privy Council, 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 92. See now Jud. Act, 1925, ss. 20 (a), 107, replacing...

Endowment

to the meaning of the term in s. 62 of the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, see Re Clergy Orphan Corporation, (1894) 3 Ch 145. A gift of money or property to an institution (such as university) for

Charity Commissioners

construction of which has given rise to great difficulties, and the judgment of Davey, L.J., in Re Clergy Orphan Corporation, 1894 (3) Ch 145. By the (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo., c 56),

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Orphanhood

The state or condition of being an orphan orphanage

Orphanage

The state of being an orphan orphanhood orphans collectively

legitimated

acknowledge their children. A legitimated child from any country has two legal parents and cannot qualify as an orphan unless: 1. only one of the parents is living, or 2. both of the parents have abandoned the

adopted child

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

foster home

foster home : a household in which care is provided to a child who has been orphaned or removed from the home of his or her natural parents (as for reasons of abuse, neglect, or

probate court

of wills and administration of estates and sometimes over the affairs of minors and persons adjudged incompetent compare orphans' court

Lorettine

at the Foot of the Cross devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans their labors being chiefly confined to the western United States

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