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Definition of Illegitimate child
1. Noun. The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents.
Generic synonyms: Issue, Offspring, Progeny
Derivative terms: Bastardise, Bastardize, Bastardly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illegitimate Child
Literary usage of Illegitimate child
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"An illegitimate child is defined to be one born out of lawful wedlock. Neither of
the above definitions are accurate; for a child may be born in wedlock, ..."
2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The obligation of the mother and of the father of an illegitimate child to provide
... By Scots Law an illegitimate child is legitimated by the subsequent ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Proceeding by the state on the relation of Amelia Wright, against Oscar L.
Bennett for the nonsupport of an illegitimate child, and being denied a Jury ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Distinction between legitimate and illegitimate child, as to the presumption
against double portions, favorable to the latter (c), [p. 412. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of the Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife by James Schouler (1895)
"Guardianship of an illegitimate child.—Testamentary guardianship, of which we
are to speak in another connection, is of such a nature that a father cannot ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"subsequently acquires another.1 An illegitimate child does not lose its original
settlement, and gain a new one, until emancipated from the control of the ..."
7. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"The illegitimate child. No form of dependency offers a more serious problem than
that accompanied by illegitimacy. The child who never needs relief may ..."
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