Posts by admin

birth records.Statistical data kept by a governmental entity concerning people’s birthdates, birthplaces, and parentage. [Cases: Health  397.][Blacks Law 8th]

birth parent.See PARENT.[Blacks Law 8th]

birth mother.See MOTHER. [Blacks Law 8th]

birth injury.Harm that occurs to a fetus during the birth process, esp. during labor and delivery. Cf. PRENATAL INJURY.[Blacks Law 8th]

birth father.See biological father under FATHER.[Blacks Law 8th]

birthday club.See GIFTING CLUB.[Blacks Law 8th]

birth control. 1. Any means of preventing conception and pregnancy, usu. by mechanical or chemical means, but also by abstaining from intercourse. 2. More narrowly, contraception.[Blacks Law 8th]

birth. The complete extrusion of a newborn baby from the mother’s body. • The quotation below states the traditional legal view of birth. In a few jurisdictions, the state of the law may be changing. In South Carolina, for example, a child does not have to be born alive to be a victim of murder;…

birretum (b<<schwa>>-ret-<<schwa>>m). [Law Latin] A cap or coif formerly worn by British judges and serjeants-at-law.[Blacks Law 8th]

BIRPI. See INTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.[Blacks Law 8th]