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Natural child

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A bastard ; a child born out of lawful wedlock. But in a statute declaring that adopted shall have nil the rights of "natural" children, the word "natural" was used in the sense of "legitimate." Bams v. Allen, 9 Am. Law Reg. (O. St) 747. In Louisiana. Illegitimate children who have been adopted by the father. Civ. Code La. art. 220.

In the civil law. A child by natural relation or procreation ; a child by birth, as distinguished from a child by adoption. Inst. 1, 11, pr.; Id. 3, 1, 2; Id. 3, 8, pr. A child by concubinage, in contradistinction to a child by marriage. Cod. 5, 27.
Defined under Child in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

An illegitimate child; a child born out of lawful wedlock. Natural day: the period of time which begins at sunrise and frnits: fruits of land or other thing, produced solely by the powers of nature. Nataral law: the rule and dictate of right reason, showing the moral deformity or moral necessity there is in an act, according to its suitableness or unsuitableness to a reasonable nature. Natural liberty: the power of acting as one thinks fit, without restraint or control, unless by the law of nature. Natural presumption: that process of probable reasoning, which is exercised by persons of ordinary intelligence, in inferring one fact from another; a presumption of fact In American law. Natural allegiance: the allegiance due from citizens born or naturalized, and which, it seems, they cannot voluntarily renounce. In English lav). Natural allegiance: that kind of allegiance which is due from all men born within the king's dominions, immediately upon their birth, which is intrinsic and perpetual, and not voluntarily to be renounced. Natural-born subjects: persons born within the dominions of the crown. Natural year: that period of time in which the sun was supposed to revolve in its orbit In the civil law. Natural child: a child by natural relation or procreation; a child by birth, as distinguished from a child by adoption; a child by concubimige. Naturale est quidlibet dissolvi eo modo quo ligatur, I. It is natural for a thing to be dissolved as (in the manner in which) it is created.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A bastard; a child born out of lawful wedlock. But in a statute declaring that adopted shall have all the rights of “natural” children, the word “natural” was used in the sense of “legitimate.” 9 Amer. Law Reg. (O. 8.) 747. In Louisiana. Illegitimate children who have been adopted by the father. Civil Code La. art. 220. In the civillaw. Aehild by natural relation or procreation; a child by birth, as distinguished from achild by adoption, Inst. ot, pr; 1d.3, 1, 2; Id. 3, 8 pr. A child by concubinage, in contradistinetion toa child by marriage. Cod. 5, 27.