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In Loco Parentis

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the place of a parent; instead of a parent; charged, factitiously, with a parent's rights, duties, and responsibllities.

Wetherby v. Dixon, 19 Ves. 412; Brinkerhoff v. Merselis, 24 N. J. Law, 683; Capek v. Kropik, 129 III.

509, 21 N. E. 836 In majore summa continetur minor.

5 Coke, 115.

In the greater sum is-contained the less.