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LONDON, Dec. 2(1. An Appeal Court decision has set doctors and lawyers arguing.
Mr. Justice Vaisey ruled that a husband could not have been father of a child born 188 days after his return from abroad. Doctors would not commit themselves on the absolute minimum but most thought the shortest term for a normal birth would be about 240 days —33 days less than the average pregnancy. Most of such disputes concern children born after longer than the average term. In the latest of these, a divorce judge decided that a child born 340 days after the husband had gone abroad would not be legitimate.
Mr. Justice Vaisey arrived at bis judgment on the evidence of Army records, hospital case sheets and the fact that the baby was of normal development.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22851, 22 January 1949, Page 5
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