Surviving Parent - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: surviving parentsurviving parent
surviving parent A child's living parent when the child's other parent is dead, and the living parent has not remarried. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in. This estate arises out of a special entail as to the parentage of the issue, when the express condition has become impossible by reason of death. Thus, if an estate be granted to husband and wife, and their issue, male or female, if either of them die without issue, the survivor is tenant-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct; and even if there have been issue, yet if the issue die without issue, then the surviving parent is also such a tenant; and also if an estate be entailed upon a man and his issue from a particular wife, if she die without issue, the interest of the husband becomes reduced to a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct. Only a donee in tail-special can become such a tenant, for if the entail be general, such a tenancy can never arise; for whilst he lives he may have issue, the law not admitting the impossibility of having children at any age. As an estate-tail is originally carved out of a fee-simpl...
survival statute
survival statute : a statute that considers the cause of action for injury to a decedent as surviving his or her death and thereby permits survival actions called also survival act ...
survival action
survival action : an action for the recovery of damages for injury to a fatally injured person that is brought by his or her personal representative compare wrongful death action NOTE: A survival action depends on the existence of a cause of action that the decedent would have had if he or she had survived. A wrongful death suit is concerned with injury to beneficiaries, not the decedent. ...
survival act
survival act : survival statute ...
Parental
Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents as parental authority parental obligations parental affection...
parent
parent 1 a : a person who begets or brings forth offspring ;esp : the natural parents of a child born of their marriage NOTE: The biological father of an illegitimate child is usually not considered the child's parent absent a judicial determination of paternity. There have been exceptions, based mainly on the father's attitude toward, support of, or involvement with the child. b : a person who legally adopts a child c : a person or entity that owes to a child a legally imposed duty of support d : a stepparent where designated by statute 2 : an entity or group that gives rise to or acquires another usually subsidiary entity or group [a company] ;specif : a corporation that owns a required minimum percentage of the stock of another corporation compare affiliate parent adj pa·ren·tal [pə-ren-təl] adj pa·ren·tal·ly adv par·ent·less adj ...
non-custodial parent
non-custodial parent The parent who does not have physical custody of the child(ren). ...
Parents est nomen generale ad omne genus cognationis
Parents est nomen generale ad omne genus cognationis. Co. Litt. 80, (Parent is a general name for every kind of relationship.)...
Pay in the substantive post in the parent department
Pay in the substantive post in the parent department, 'pay in the substantive post in the parent department' means the pay attached to the post substantively held by the employee on the date of transfer to another department, V.A. Subhadra v. A. Satyavan, AIR 1975 SC 1913 (1914): (1975) 4 SCC 624: (1976) 1 SCR 375....
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