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• Orphans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England
• Orphans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States

• Acts and orders. 1551-10-13 ([Imprinted at London : in Powles Churchyard, by Iohn Cawood, printer to the Queenes Maiestie [i.e. by Thomas East?, 1554? i.e. 1575?]]), by City of London (England). Court of Common Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Adopted Orphans Citizenship Act : report (to accompany H.R. 2883) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (United States Congress, House of Representatives, 2000), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-Atrocity Alien Deportation Act (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Institutional Care and Placing-Out: The Place of Each in the Care of Dependent Children (Chicago: Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home, 1930), by Elias L. Trotzkey (page images at HathiTrust)
• How two hundred children live and learn (Charities publication committee, 1910), by R. R. Reeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mentality of orphans. (R. G. Badger, 1930), by Robert A. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toby Tyler (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923), by James Otis, W. A. Rogers, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• How two hundred children live and learn. (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1914), by R. R. Reeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• How two hundred children live and learn (L.A. Noble, 1917), by R. R. Reeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The immigration of adopted and prospective adoptive children (The Service, 1984), by United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training youth for the new social order (The Antioch Press, 1933), by R. R. Reeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melody (Boston : Estes & Lauriat, 1893., 1893), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Estes & Lauriat (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of little Margery Meanwell (London : John Harris, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1825., 1825), by Griffith Jones, Giles Jones, John Newbery, Oliver Goldsmith, and John Harris (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Os orphãos das ultimas epidemias em Lisboa e as irmãs da caridade. (Imprensa nacional, 1859), by Antonio de Almeida and Imprensa Nacional de Lisboa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on education in Europe, to the trustees of the Girard college for orphans (Printed by Lydia R. Bailey, 1839), by A. D. Bache and Girard College (page images at HathiTrust)
• The happy days. (Little, Brown, 1960), by Yong-ik Kim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oliver Twist : or the parish boy's progress (Dent ;, 1907), by Charles Dickens and G. K. Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conférence sur la charité (s.n.], 1882), by Louis Joseph Paul Napoléon Bruchési (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die rechtliche stellung des gemeindewaisenrats in Preussen. (Wiesbaden, 1906), by Fritz Dreyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The adventures of François : foundling, thief, juggler, and fencing master, during the French revolution (International Book and Pub. Co., 1899), by S. Weir Mitchell and Norman Kane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of François : foundling, thief, juggler, and fencing-master during the French revolution (Macmillan, 1901), by S. Weir Mitchell and Norman Kane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christie Redfern's troubles. (Religious Tract Society, 1886), by Margaret M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Müller of Bristol and his witness to a prayer-hearing God (The Baker & Taylor company, 1899), by Arthur T. Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benevolent institutions. 1910. (Govt. Print. Off., 1913), by United States Bureau of the Census, John Koren, Joseph A. Hill, and Edwin M. Bliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Has this little girl a home in your heart? She has no other! (American Committee for Relief in the Near East, 1918), by American Committee for Relief in the Near East. National Campaign Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oliver Twist (Chapman & Hall ;, 1897), by Charles Dickens, H. W. Vrooman, Martha Landis, Andrew Lang, H.W. Vrooman Collection of Dickensiana (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library), William Clowes and Sons, Charles Scribner's Sons, and Chapman and Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alone in London (Religious Tract Society, 1872), by Hesba Stretton, William Clowes and Sons, and Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betsy Hale succeeds (The John C. Winston Company, 1923), by Mary Pemberton Ginther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Managers of the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum ... ([publisher not identified], 1840), by Cincinnati Orphan Asylum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roby family, or, battling with the world ... (T. Nelson and Sons, 1870), by A. L. O. E., Dalziel Brothers, and Thomas Nelson & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orphan's victory (Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1867), by Sarah A. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Miserables (Donohue, Henneberry, 1900), by Victor Hugo, H. L. A., H. L. A., Charles E. Wilbour, and Lascelles Wraxall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, findngs and plan of action (Office of National AIDS Policy, 1999), by Presidential Mission on Children Orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (U.S.) and United States. Office of National AIDS Policy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das Waisenhaus in St. Gallen. Rückblick auf die Geschichte desselben bei der Feier des fünfzigsten Jahrestages seiner Stiftung] (Zollikoferschen Offizin, 1861), by Friedrich von Tschudi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wegweiser zur literatur der waisenpflege, des volkserziehungswesens (P. Schmitz, 1831), by J. B. Ristelhueber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kreuzerverein zur Unterstützung armer Isr. Waisenmädchen des Königreiches Böhmen (I. Fuchs, 1903), by Ludwig Pick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• California laws relating to orphans and their support. (State printing office, 1914), by California, California. State Board of Control, and California State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Bureau of Children's Aid, State Department of Finance. (California State Printing Office, in the 20th century), by California. Bureau of Children's Aid (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Little Princess: A Play for Children and Grown-Up Children in Three Acts (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oliver Twist: A Serio-Comic Burletta, in Four Acts (French's Standard Drama #228; New York: S. French, ca. 1864), by George Almar, contrib. by Charles Dickens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Les Miserables (dramatic adaptation of the novel), by Victor Hugo and Paul Meurice, trans. by Frank J. Morlock (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• No Name: A Drama in Five Acts, by William Bayle Bernard, contrib. by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
• No Name: A Drama, in Four Acts, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
• The little princess : a play for children and grown-up children in three acts (S. French, 1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Versuch zur Beantwortung der Frage: Wie sind Waysenhäuser anzulegen : oder die jetzigen so einzurichten, dass mit wenigern Kosten als bishero, in Zukunft eine grössere Anzahl Waysenkinder für ihre Person und zum Nutzen des Staats christlich, gesund und arbeitsam erzogen werden (J.C. Dieterich, 1785), by August Friedrich Rulffs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der Freiwillige Erziehungsbeirat für Schulentlassene Waisen: Ein Versuch zur Lösung der Frage, Was ist das Deutsche Volkseinen Verwaisten Kindern Schuldig? (in German; Berlin: L. Oehmigke's verlag, 1896), by Franz Pagel
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A few words in behalf of the orphan girls in Union houses. Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (Bell and Daldy, 186, Fleet Street, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Report of the governours of the corporation for improving and releiving the poor of this city of London, and liberties thereof ([London] : Printed by James Flesher ..., 1655), by City of London (England) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Orphans case ([London? : s.n., 1687?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered for the bill to enable the city of London to pay their orphans by sale of 3000 l. per annum of their lands, by a revenue from hackney-coachmen, and by a duty on coals: As to that part of the bill that concerns hackney-coachmen ... ([London] : Printed by Samuel Roycroft, printer to the honourable city of London, [1690?]), by City of London (England) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the orphans and creditors of the city of London: ([London? : s.n., 1688]), by Nathaniel Reading (HTML at EEBO TCP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.