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Definition of Bastardy
1. Noun. The status of being born to parents who were not married.
Definition of Bastardy
1. n. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
Definition of Bastardy
1. Noun. (legal) The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman or as the fruit of adultery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bastardy
1. the state of being a bastard [n -TARDIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardy
Literary usage of Bastardy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Abridgment of the Law by Matthew Bacon (1832)
"When a writ is awarded to the bishop to certify bastardy, day is given in court
to attend such certification, otherwise the parties would be without day in ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1901)
"CONSTITUTIONAL LAW—IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT- bastardy PROCEEDINGS.—A judgment in
bastardy proceedings that the father of an Illegitimate child be required to ..."
3. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"But where bastardy is alleged on special grounds not involving the marriage (2 Roll.
580. ... 11,) or where general bastardy is not directly in issue (Ibid. ..."
4. The Laws Relating to the Poor by Edmund Bott, John Tidd Pratt, Francis Const, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Barbados (1827)
"Upon an order of bastardy the defendant appealed to the Sessions, ... Norton moved
to quash an order of bastardy, which being indefensible was accordingly ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes: Including the Written Laws and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"bastardy, also, does not require this element, though it may be committed on ...
Like adultery,1 fornication and bastardy were punishable under the English ..."
6. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"These proceedings are in their nature more civil than criminal.7 In some states
bastardy is punishable together with fornication,8 and it has been said that ..."
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