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Definition of Legitimated
1. legitimate [v] - See also: legitimate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimated
Literary usage of Legitimated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws; Or, Private International Law by Francis Wharton (1906)
"The domicil of a legitimated child, as soon as he is legitimated, ... 69) says
that, "in the case of a legitimated person, the domicil of origin is the ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"7 Inheritance of a legitimated child.—This legitimation by subsequent marriage,
as it is technically called, is now the law of Virginia and many other ..."
3. The Civil Law in Spain and Spanish-America: Including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and by Clifford Stevens Walton, Spain (1900)
"legitimated children.* Article 119. Only natural children can be legitimated.
... Children can only be considered as legitimated by a subsequent marriage, ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"... equally with the legitimate children.1 It has been held that when an illegitimate
child is fully legitimated by a special act, passed at the instance of ..."
5. De Laudibus Legum Angliae: A Treatise in Commendation of the Laws of England by John Fortescue, Thomas Fortescue Clermont (1874)
"The Reason -why Base-born Children are not in England by the subsequent Marriage
legitimated. BESIDES, the Civil Law says, that a natural son is the son of ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1894)
"An ante-nuptial child becomes legitimated by the marriage of its parents, and,
surviving its father, is entitled equally with its surviving mother, ..."
7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"These unhappy fruits of illicit connection were, by the civil and canon laws,
made capable of being legitimated by the subsequent marriage of their parents ..."
8. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"legitimated children.—The same situation is often encountered where the statute
... Would then such an act make a legitimated child an heir within the ..."
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