Law Dictionary Definitions

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]

Biotechnology Patent Process Protection Act.Patents. A 1995 federal statute that made biotechnological processes per se patentable if either the process or the resulting material is novel and nonobvious. 35 USCA § 103(b). — Also termed Biotechnology Act. BIPARTITE bipartite,adj. (Of an instrument) executed in two parts by both parties.[Blacks Law 8th]

biotechnology.Patents. A branch of molecular biology dealing with the use of biological processes to produce useful medical and industrial materials. Cf. GENETIC ENGINEERING.[Blacks Law 8th]

biological warfare.See WARFARE.[Blacks Law 8th]

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

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