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Encyclopedia Britannica



ORPHAN

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 327 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
ORPHAN , the
term
  used of one who has lost both parents by death, sometimes of one who has lost father or
mother
  only. In Law, an orphan is such a person who is under age. The
Late
  Lat. orphanus, from which the word, chiefly owing to its use in the
Vulgate
 , was adopted into English, is a transliteration of 6p4av6s in the same sense, the
original
  meaning being " bereft of," " destitute," classical Lat. orbus. The Old English word for an orphan was steel pcild, stepchild. By the custom of the city of London, the lord mayor and aldermen, in the Court of Orphans, have the guardianship of the children still under age of deceased freemen. Orphans' courts exist for the guardian-ship of orphans and administration of their estates in
Delaware
 ,
Maryland
 , New
Jersey
  and
Pennsylvania
  in the United States. In other states these are performed by
officers
  of the Probate Court, known as " surrogates," or by other titles.


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