ORPHAN

Any person (but particularly a minor or infant) who has lost both (or one) of his or her parents. More particularly, a fatherle child. Soohan v. Philadel• phi a, 33 Pa. 24; Post on v. Young, 7 J. J. Marsh. (Ky.) 501; Chicago Guaranty Fund Life Soc. v. Wheeler, 79 Ill. App. 241; Stewart v. Morrison, 38 Mi . 419; Downing y, Shoenberger, 9 Watts (Pa.) 299. ORPHANAGE PART, That portion of an intestate's effects which his children were entitled to by the custom of London. Thill custom appears to have been a remnant of what was once a general law all over England, namely, that a father should not by hfs will bequeath the entirety of his personal estate away from his family, but should leave them a third part at least, called the "children's part," corresponding to the "bairns' part" or Zegitim of Scotch law, and also (although not in amount) to the Zegitima quart a of Roman law. (Inst. 2, 18.) This custom of London was abolished by St. 19 & 20 Viet. -c. 94. Brown. [s. 867]