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Adoption

Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany, where the civil law (as to which, see Sand. Just.) prevails to any great extent. In 1889 and 1890, Lord Meath introduced Bills in the House of Lords to legalize adoption.By the (English) Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 29), after the 31st December, 1925, the Court (usually in the Chancery Division) may authorize the adoption of an infant who is under twenty-one years of age, a British subject, and resident in England and Wales, by an applicant who is more than twenty-five years of age, and also twenty-one years older than the infant, unless closely related, and a British subject, resident and domiciled in England or Wales, but a single adopter, only, will be authorized unless two spouses jointly apply. A male may not adopt a female infant unless the court finds special reason...

Sandnecker

A European flounder Hippoglossoides limandoides called also rough dab long fluke sand fluke and sand sucker...

Quicksand

Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure especially a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts and very dangerous from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it...

Matweed

A name of several maritime grasses as the sea sand reed Ammophila arundinacea which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes see Beach grass under Beach also the Lygeum Spartum a Mediterranean grass of similar habit...

Fulgurite

A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand a lightning tube also the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge...

Douls malus

Douls malus (a degree of dolus, artifice) means fraud, Sand. Just...

Cessio in jure

Cessio in jure, a fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire a thing claimed (vindicabat) the thing, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the justice of the claim, and the magistrate pronounced it to be property (addicebat) of the claimant, Sand Just....

Condictio

Condictio is an actio stricti juris attributed to a party of a negotium stricti juris, and derived from the Civil Law. Appellantur in personam actiones quibus dare fierive opertere intendimus, condictiones. The condictio was certa or incerta according as a definite or an indefinite thing was demanded. The judge had merely to decide the question submitted to him, without taking into account consideration of equity, Sand. Just. See ACTIO BON' FIDEI....

Contubernium

Contubernium, the union of slaves with their masters' consent; the children of such unions were the property of their parents' owners, Sand. Just....

Curator

Curator, a protector of property. His duty was to see that the person under his care did not waste his goods-Civil Law, Sand. Just. As to an interim curator for a convict's property, see Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), s. 21, and see ADMINISTRATOR. This Act is not affected by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, see s. 7 (3), ibid....

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