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Qui ex damnato coitu nascuntur inter liberos non computentur

1. 1, c. 6, s. 7; Steph. Com. vol. i. bk. ii. pt. i., at p. 249. See BASTARD.

Pallio cooperire

adoption. The children were legitimate by the Civil, but not by the Common, Law, Jac. Law Dict. see BASTARD.

Nullius filius

Nullius filius (the son of nobody, i.e., a natural child). See BASTARD.

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Non-access

nature, by reason of his absence, have been the father of his wife's child, the child is a bastard. Access is presumed during wedlock; but this presumption may be countered by proof of circumstances showing that sexual

Merton, Statute of

Barones,' runs the statute, 'una voce responderunt quod nolunt leges, Angli' mutare qu' usitat' sunt et approbat'.' See BASTARD; INCLOSURE.

Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium

Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium. The legitimation of a bastard by the subsequent marriage of his parents. Formerly not recognized by the Law of England, though always allowed

Bastart

Bastart, one born in concubinage, a bastard.

Illegitimacy

Illegitimacy. born of parents not married to each other. See BASTARD. Means the state or condition of a child born outside a lawful marriage. Also termed bastardy, Black's Law

Frater nutricius

Frater nutricius, a bastard brother.

filius nullius

filius nullius [Medieval Latin, literally, no one's son] : an illegitimate child : bastard called also filius populi

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