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VISITATION

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The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. 2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations. Family Law: The right that a parent, grandparent or other family member or guardian of a child may possess to visit a child who does not live with that person, whereby the person does not have physical custody of the child. … [Read more...]

VISITATION BOOKS

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In English law. Books compiled by the heralds, when progresses were solemnly and regularly made Into every part of the kingdom, to Inquire into the state of families, and to register such marriages and descents as were verified to them upon oath; they were allowed to he good evidence of pedigree. 3 Bl. Comm. 106; 8 Steph. Comm. 724. … [Read more...]

VISITATION RIGHTS

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The right to see a child regularly, typically awarded by the court to the parent who does not have physical custody of the child. The court will deny visitation rights only if it decides that visitation would hurt the child so much that the parent should be kept away. … [Read more...]

VIRILIA

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The privy members of a man, to cut off which was felony by the common law, though the party consented to it. … [Read more...]

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