Orphan - The Immigration and Nationality Act provides a definition of an orphan for the purposes of immigration to the United States.
Orphan
Related Category: Legal Terms and Concepts
see adoption; foundling hospital; guardian and ward.
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Adoption - act by which the legal relation of parent and child is created.
Orphan definition:
A person who has lost one or both of his or her natural parents.
In Hunter v Dow, Justice Mathers of the Manitoba King's Bench wrote: ...
Orphan
A child who has lost one or more parents because of death or who has been abadoned by them and has not been adopted by anyone.
orphans' court : a probate court with limited jurisdiction
probate [Latin probatum, neuter of probatus, past participle of probare to test, approve, ...
Orphan
A person who has lost one or both natural parents.
Out-of-court settlement
An agreement between two litigants to settle a matter privately before a court has rendered its decision.
orphan
n. a child, particularly a minor, whose two natural parents are dead. In some cases, such as whether a child is eligible for public financial assistance to an orphan, "orphan" can mean a child who has lost one parent.
ORPHANAGE, Engl. law. By the custom of London, when a freeman of that city dies, his estate is divided into three parts, as follows: one third part to the widow; another, to the children advanced by him in his lifetime, ...
Orphanage, Child abuse,
Family law, Parenting
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The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
An orphan is generally a ward of the state or of the institution responsible for the orphan’s custody and welfare.
In such cases custody can be awarded to a grandparent or other relative, a foster parent, or an orphanage or other organization or institution.
Abandonment also describes situations in which a child is physically abandoned -- for example, left on a doorstep, delivered to a hospital or put in a trash can. Physically abandoned children are usually placed in orphanages and made available for ...
the well-to-do towards poor relief there provided for, (b) at least a theoretical recognition of a right as well as an obligation on the part of the labourer to be hired, (c) careful provision for the apprenticing of destitute children and orphans to ...
 See also: Child, Law, Person, Court, State
  
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