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Bastardy-bonds

Bastardy-bonds, to indemnify parishes as to natural children likely to be born, made void by the (English) Poor Law Amendment Act,1834 (4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 76), s. 70. [(English) Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1874.]...


Bastart

Bastart, one born in concubinage, a bastard....


Birth

Birth, means live-birth or still-birth. [Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 (18 of 1969), s. 2(a)]A complete extrusion of a new born baby from the mother's body; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....


Births, Marriages, and Deaths

Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), amended by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22), a General Register Office is provided for keeping a register of births, deaths, and marriages in England. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 [37 & 38 (English) Vict. c. 88], amends the laws relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England in important particulars, and consolidates the law relating to the registration of births and deaths at sea. This Act (s. 1) imposes upon the father and mother of a child, and in their default, upon the occupier of a house in which to his knowledge a child is born, the duty of giving information to the registrar within 42 days. By s. 10 a corresponding obligation to register a death is imposed upon relatives, etc.By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of ...


Calvin's case

Calvin's case (Calvin v. Smith, 7 Rep. 1; 2 ST 559). A case decided in 1608 in which it was held that persons born in Scotland after the accession of James I. to the crown of England were not aliens but capable of inheriting land in England; see Broom's Const. Law....


Child

Child, means any person below the age of eighteen years and includes any adopted, step or foster child. [Protection of Woman from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (43 of 2005), s. 2(b)]Child includes a still-born child. [Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (53 of 1961), s. 3 (b)]Means a person who has not completed fourteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (52 of 1966), s. 2 (b)]Means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (c)]Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (ii)Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (a)]Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (bb)]Means a person who has not completed the age of sixteen years. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) A...


Children

Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 107, as meaning, for the purposes of the Act, a person under fourteen years of age. The (English) Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 47), makes provisions for Scotland similar to those of the corresponding English Act.Registration of Birth, and Vaccination.--It is the duty, by s. 1 of the (English) Births and Deaths Registration act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88), of the father and mother of very child born alive, and in their default of other persons (see BIRTHS), to give information to the registrar within forty two days; the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 2 and 3, provides for compulsory notification of births to the Medical Officer of Health (see BIRTHS), and the child must be vaccinat...


Coke, Sir Edward

Coke, Sir Edward, often, but incorrectly, styled Lord Coke, born in 1551, called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1578, counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of Commons, Solicitor-General and Attorney-General under Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1606 and of the King's Bench in 1613, 'taking particular delight,' writes Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices, 'in styling himself ' Chief Justice of England,''was deprived of office and committed to the Tower by Charles I., for his support of the Petition of right. Coke was bitterly hostile to the injunction of equity. The controversy between Coke and Lord Ellesmere, the Chancellor, was acute. James I. referred the whole matter to Bacon, the Attorney-General, and others learned in the law. Acting upon the recommendations of this committee of counsel, James I. decided the matter in favour of Chancery. It should be menti...


Collision of ships

Collision of ships, the striking or running foul of one ship against another. The remedy is either an action at law or a suit in the Admiralty Division. The possibilities under which a collision may occur, and the rules acted on by the Court of Admiralty, have been thus stated by Lord Stowell in The Woodrop-Sims, (1815) 2 Dodson, 85:-'In the first place, it may happen without blame being imputable to either party: as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major, in that case the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom it happens to light, the other not being responsible to him in any degree. Secondly, a misfortune of this kind may arise where both parties are to blame, where there has been a want of due diligence or of skill on both sides: in such a case, the rule of law is, that the loss must be apportioned between them, as having been occasioned by the fault of both of them. Thirdly, it may happen by the misconduct of the suffering party only, and then the rul...


Contract for sale of land

Contract for sale of land. The incidents of a contract for sale of land re regulated partly by statute and partly by the practice of conveyancers. A contract for sale of land must be in writing, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 40. See FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. If the contract is a simple, unconditional, or open contract for sale of land, it is implied that the vendor is to make a good title to the land for an estate in fee simple free from incumbrances, Hughes v. Parker, 8 M & W 344. He is under an obligation to show a good title (in ordinary circumstances for the thirty years preceding the date of contract, see ABSTRACT), and to prove that title by sufficient evidence. the expenses of showing the title, i.e., the abstract, falls on the vendor and so also the expenses of production of material documents in his possession or in that of his trustees an mortgagees. The expenses of production for verification of those which are not in such possession are to be borne by the purchaser, (English) L.P....



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