Orphan
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A minor or infant who has lost both of his or her parents. Sometimes the term is applied to a person who has lost only one of his or her parents.
2 S. & S. 93; Heiss v. Murphey, 40 Wis. 276.
See 14 Hazzard, Penn. Reg. 188, 189, for a correspondence between Joseph Hopkinson and expresident J. Q. Adams as to the meaning of the word orphan; see also, Hob. 247; Jackman v. Nelson, 147 Mass. 300, 17 N. E. 529.