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Iddat period

her divorce, the period between the divorce and the delivery of her child or the termination of her pregnancy, whichever is earlier. [Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 (25 of 1986), s. 2 (b)]

Guardian

means a person having the care of the person of a minor or a lunatic. [Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (34 of 1971), s. 2 (a)] It means a person having the care of the person

Foetal death

the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. [Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 (18 of 1969), s. (c)]

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Quintuplets

five children born from one mother in a single pregnancy

Confinement

Confinement, means labour resulting in the issue of a living child, or labour after twenty-six weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of a child whether alive or dead. [Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of

Collateral

sons; collateral issue, where a criminal convict pleads any matter allowed by law, in bar of execution, as pregnancy, pardon, an act of grace, or diversity of person, viz., that he or she is not the same

Body

not been judicially defined. There must have been independent life, a non-viable fetus expelled at a stage of pregnancy at which separate existence is impossible does not fall within the coroner's jurisdiction, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy must be notified to the Medical Officer of Health, except as there provided. The Act repeals the (English)

Accession

corporeal substance receive an accession, either by natural or artificial means, as by the growth of vegetables, the pregnancy of animals, the embroidering of cloth, or the conversion of wood or metal into utensils, the original owner

Verbarrubella

virus is called Rubella virus or Rubivirus If contracted by a woman during the first several months of pregnancy rubella may cause serious abnormalities in the fetus

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