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Baby Moses law
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English
Etymology
A reference to the Biblical story, related in Exodus chapter 2, in which the baby Moses is abandoned by the river Nile and found by the pharaoh's daughter.1769, Exodus, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text.
Noun
Baby Moses law
en US A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated private persons so that they become wards of the state.
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