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wrongful pregnancy : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a healthy but unwanted child usually against a physician or health-care provider for alleged negligence in performing a sterilization or abortion procedure and sometimes against a pharmacist or pharmaceutical manufacturer of contraceptives ;also : the pregnancy or injury at issue in such a claim [an action for wrongful pregnancy] called also wrongful conception NOTE: A majority of courts faced with the issue have disallowed damages for child-rearing expenses in wrongful pregnancy cases. It is more common to recover for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, or loss of consortium from pregnancy and childbirth. ...
Medical termination of pregnancy
Medical termination of pregnancy, means the termination of pregnancy permissible under the provisions of Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971. [Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (53 of 1961), s. 3 (ha)]...
Pregnancy, Plea of
Pregnancy, Plea of. When a woman is capitally con-victed, and pleads her pregnancy, execution will be respited until she be delivered. See JURY OF MATRONS....
Pregnance
Pregnancy...
Pregnancy
Pregnancy, the state of being with child. It may be an 'illness' preventing the attendance of a witness, Reg. v. Wellings, (1878) 3 QBD 426....
abortion
abortion 1 : the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus ;esp : the medical procedure of inducing expulsion of a human fetus to terminate a pregnancy 2 : the crime of procuring or performing an illegal abortion [a conspiracy to commit "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] see also Roe v. Wade and Webster v. Reproductive Health Services in the Important Cases section ...
Birth, Concealing
Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of a child, whether such child died before, at, or after his birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdeameanour, punishable with imprisonment not exceeding two years. To constitute the offence it must be established that the mother was delivered of a child within the meaning of the statute (see R. v. Colmer, 9 Cox, 506; R. v. Hewitt, 4 F. & F. 1101), that there was a definite act of concealment of the body as distinguished from abandonment, that the child was dead at the time, and that a body has been found and identified with that of the child to whom the charge relates. S. 60 of the Act provides, further, that if any woman tried for the murder of a child is acquitted thereof, she can lawfully be convicted of concealment of birth if there is evidence of that offence....
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
wrongful birth
wrongful birth : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a child born with a birth defect against a physician or health-care provider whose alleged negligence (as in prenatal testing or diagnosis) effectively deprived the parents of the opportunity to make an informed decision whether to avoid or terminate the pregnancy ;also : the birth or injury at issue in such a claim [recognize a cause of action for wrongful birth] NOTE: Two factors behind the general recognition of the wrongful birth claim are scientific advances in prenatal diagnosis of birth defects and the legalization of abortion. Wrongful birth and wrongful life are distinct from malpractice claims alleging actual physical injury to a fetus caused by a negligently performed procedure. ...
wrongful conception
wrongful conception : wrongful pregnancy ...
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