Birth

The act of being wholly brought into the world. The conditions of live birth are not satisfied when a part only of the body is born. The whole body must be brought into the world, and detached from that of the mother, and after this event the child must be alive. 5 Car. & P. 329; 7 Car. & P. 814. The circulating system must also be changed, and the child must have an independent circulation. 5 Car. & P. 539; 9 Car. & P. 154. But it is not "necessary that there should have been a separation of the umbilical cord. That may still connect the child with its mother, and yet the killing of it will constitute murder. 7 Car. & P. 814; 9 Car. & P. 25. See 1 Beck,' Med. Jur. 478; 1 Chit. Med. Jur. 438.

The act of being wholly brought Into the world. The conditions of live birth are not satisfied when a part only of the body is born. The whole body must be brought into the world and detached from that of the mother, and after this event the child must be alive; 5 C. & P. 329; 7 id. 814. The circulating system must also be changed, and the child must have an independent circulation; 5 C. & P. 539; 9 id. 154; Tayl. Med. Jur. 591. But it is not necessary that there should have been a separation of the umbilical cord. That may still connect the child with its mother, and yet the killing of it will constitute murder; 7 C. & P. 814. See 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 478; 1 Chit. Med. Jur. 438; Gestation; Life; Vital Statistics.

The act of being born or wholly brought into separate existence,

See Abandon, 2 (3); Natus; Venter.

is the act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole the mother, in order to make the birth complete. 5 C. & P. 329; S. C. 24 E.C. L. R. 344; 6C. & P. 349; S.C. 25 E.C. L. R. 433; 5 C. & P. 539; 24 E. C. L. R. 446. Vide articles Breath, Dead Born, Gestation, Life; and 1 Beck’s Med. Jur. 478, et seq.. BISSEXTILE, is the day which is added every fourth year to the month of February, in order to make the year agree with the course of the sun. It is called bissextile because in the Roman calendar it was fixed on the sizth day before the calends of March (which answers to the 24th day of February) and this day was counted twice; the first was called bissextus prior, and the other bissezxtus posterior, but the latter was properly called bissextile or intercalary day. Now the day is not repeated, but a day, the 29th, is added to the month of February every fourth year; and the year when it is added is called leap year.