child

A juvenile subject to parental control or guardianship. State v Gonzales, 241 La 619, 129 So 2d 796, 84 ALR2d 1248; one under the age of puberty, or not old enough to dispense with parental aid or care. Central of Georgia R. Co. v Robins, 209 Ala 6, 95 So 367, 36 ALR 10; a person of tender years, as distinguished from a youth, who, although legally an infant, possesses the size and strength of a man. 27 Am J1st Inf § 112; a son or daughter of a person, whether infant or adult. 2 Am J2d Adopt § 11; 39 Am J1st P & C § 2; a natural child, as distinguished from a child by adoption, unless the context of an instrument in question indicates an intention to include an adopted child or to use the term child in a more extensive sense than its natural import, or such intention is to be inferred from the attendant circumstances, or such a construction is required by a statutory definition. 2 Am J2d Adopt § 96; a word which is not a technical legal term having a fixed and definite meaning, but one which is flexible and subject to construction to give effect to the intention of the maker of the instrument in which it appears. Conner v Gardner, 230 Ill 258, 82 NE 640. See children; emancipation; grandchild; infant; in loco parentis; minor; parent.