Bastard
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person born out of wedlock whose legal status is illegitimacy.
Bastard definition:
An illegitimate child, born in a relationship between two persons that are not married (ie. not in wedlock) or who are not married at the time of the child's birth.
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BASTARD - A word derived from bas or bast, signifying abject, low, base nature. An Enfant de bas, a child of low birth. According to Blackstone, a bastard in the law sense of the word is a person not only begotten, but born out of lawful matrimony.
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BASTARD. A word derived from bas or bast, signifying abject, low, base; and aerd, nature. Minshew, Co. Lit. 244; a. Enfant de bas, a child of low birth. Dupin. According to Blackstone, 1 Com.
Bastard
Definition - Noun
: an illegitimate child
The word bastard is no longer used in legal contexts.
Pronunciation'bas-t&rd ...
Judicial determination of paternity - that a man is the father of a bastard. See Filius. Filius. Latin. A child; a son. Filius nullius. The child of nobody. Filius populi. The child of the people. A bastard.
ILLEGITIMATE
That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child.... more ...
been said, three hundred days is the utmost limit to which physiologists would extend the period of utero-gestation. This subject involves questions respecting children born during a second marriage of the mother, posthumous children, bastardy, ...
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