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Escheat

the part of those ancestors from whom the estate descended, or where the intestate tenant, having been a bastard, did not leave any lineal descendants, since he cannot have any collateral descendants. By the (English) Intestates Estate

Illegitimation

The act of illegitimating bastardizing

Illegitimatize

To render illegitimate to bastardize

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Birth, Concealing

upon acquittal upon indictment for child destruction. The offence was first created in connection with the birth of bastards only, and concealment by the mother was by 21 Jac. 1, c. 27, punishable by death until the

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