Section 4
Interpretation-clause.
About this Act
An Act to provide compensation to families for loss occasioned by the death of a person caused by actionable wrong
The following words and expressions are intended to have the meanings
hereby assigned to them respectively, so far as such meanings are not excluded by the context or by the nature of the subject-matter; that is to say 1*** the word "person", shall apply to bodies politic and
corporate; and the word "parent" shall include father and mother2
and grand-father and grand-mother;
and the word "child" shall include son and daughter and grand-son and grand-daughter and step-son and
step-daughter.
Notes
1. Certain words omitted by Act 10 of 1914, Sch.
2. Stepfather and step-mother are designedly omitted.
2. Stepfather and step-mother are designedly omitted.