Still-born Child Definition: A child which which did not at any time after being completely expelled from its mother breathe or show any signs of life. The Attorney's Dictionary of Medicine defines "stillborn" as:"Born dead; said of an infant who is born dead."In an English, statute, the 1953 Births and Deaths Registration Act, a still-born child is defined as follows, at ยง41:"Still-born child means a child which has issued forth from its mother after the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy and which did not at any time, after being completely expelled from its mother, breathe or show any signs of life." REFERENCES:Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1953 s.41 (United Kingdom)Schmidt, J. E., Attorney's Dictionary of Medicine (Newark, NJ: Matthew Bender, 2001), Volume 5. Categories & Topics: Medical-Legal Dictionary Find you are constantly looking up definitions? Try our search provider (works in most modern browsers) If you find an error or omission in Duhaime's Legal Dictionary, or if you have legal term suggestion, we'd love to hear from you!