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Definition of Bastardy proceeding
1. Noun. A lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined).
Generic synonyms: Case, Causa, Cause, Lawsuit, Suit
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardy Proceeding
Literary usage of Bastardy proceeding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1903)
"Where the defendant in a bastardy proceeding, after being arrested and ...
The trial court cannot, in a bastardy proceeding, try the issue whether the ..."
2. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"314n; State (Ala. App.), 77 So. 978. People v. Wunsch, 198 111. App. 437 » Coleman
v. Frum, 8 Scam. (111.) (a bastardy proceeding is criminal ..."
3. Cases on the Law of Contracts by George Purcell Costigan (1921)
""That this is a proceeding in bastardy, and a justice of the peace has exclusive
original jurisdiction." This is not a bastardy proceeding, ..."
4. The Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York: With by New York (State). (1900)
"In an action upon a bastardy proceeding adjournment bond, ... A disagreement of
the two justices before whom a bastardy proceeding is tried does not ..."
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