NATURAL

The juristic meaning of this term does not differ from the vernacular, except in the cases where it is used in opposition to the term “legal;” and then it means proceeding from or determined by physical causes or conditions, as distinguished from positive enactments of law, or attributable to the nature of man rather than to the commands of law, or based upon moral rather than legal considerations or sanctions. Natural affection. Such as naturally subsists between .near relatives, as a father and child, brother and sister, husband and wife. This is regarded in law as a good consideration. Natural-born subject. In English law. One born within the dominions, or rather within the allegiance, of the king of England. Natural fool. A person born without understanding; a born fool or idiot Sometimes called, in the old books, a “natural.” In re Anderson, 132 N. C 243, 43 S. E. 649. Natural life. The period between birth and natural death, as distinguished from civil death, (q. v.) As to natural “Allegiance,” “Boundary,” “Channel,” “Child,” “Day,” “Death,” “Domicile,” “Equity,” “Fruits,” “Guardian,” “Heir,” “Infancy,” “Liberty,” “Obligation,” “Person,” “Possession,” “Presumption,” “Rights,” “Succession,” “Water-course,” and “Year,” see those titles