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Pallio cooperire. It was anciently a custom where children were born out of wedlock and their parents afterwards intermarried, that the children, together with the father and mother, stood under a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnised. It was in the nature of adoption. The children were legitimate by the Civil, but not by the Common, Law, Jac. Law Dict. see BASTARD.