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Definition of Bastards
1. bastard [n] - See also: bastard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastards
Literary usage of Bastards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Illegitimate children, or bastards.—"We are next to consider the case of ...
Who are bastards. 2. The legal duties of the parents towards a bastard ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"We admit distinctly that the appellants must iake as bastards, or they cannot
take at all. They are ''clothed with all the attributes and ..."
3. The Laws Relating to the Poor by Edmund Bott, John Tidd Pratt, Francis Const, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Barbados (1827)
"I. The Statutes relating to bastards. II. Who shall be deemed bastards. III. ...
579. therefore, born before matrimony are bastards by the law of England. ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1894)
"39, that, though bastards of the same mother were allowed to inherit from each
other and ... The court said : " If the appellees in this case were bastards, ..."
5. A New Abridgment of the Law by Matthew Bacon (1832)
"(E) How bastards are to be provided for: And herein of the Duty and Power of
Justices of the Peace. (F) Murdering bastards, Hand concealing their Birth. ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"French legislation, in giving bastards the right to inherit from their mother,
... On June 4, 1793, the Convention laid down the principle that bastards ..."
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