Section 2Part 0 —
Definitions
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In this Act —
includes an individual —
who is the offspring of a party, or both parties, to a civil partnership; or
who has been treated by a party, or both parties, to a civil partnership as a child of the family, including a step child, an adopted or foster child or a child born to parents who were not in a civil partnership;
has the meaning assigned by section 2 of the Civil Partnership Act, 2020 [Law 35 of 2020];
has the meaning assigned by section 2 of the Civil Partnership Act, 2020 [Law 35 of 2020];
in relation to a person, includes the person's civil partner;
includes leasehold estates and other chattels real, and moneys, shares of Government and other funds, securities for money (not being real estate), debts, choses in action, rights, credits, goods and all other property whatsoever which by law devolves upon the executor or administrator, and to any share or interest therein;
includes messuages, lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments, whether freehold or of any other tenure, and whether corporeal, incorporeal or personal, and any undivided share thereof, and any estate, right or interest (other than a chattel interest) therein; and
includes a testament and a codicil, and an appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will, in exercise of a power; and also to an appointment by will of a guardian of a child, and any other testamentary disposition.
Defined Terms
childcivil partnercivil partnershipnext of kinpersonal estatereal estatewill
Cross References
- Section 2 of Civil Partnership Act
Definition of civil partner and civil partnership