Act Number: 13

Act Name: The Fatal Accidents Act, 1855

Year: 1855

Enactment Date: 1855-03-27

Long Title: An Act to provide compensation to families for loss occasioned by the death of a person caused by actionable wrong

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 4: Interpretation-clause.
    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.
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