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Special bastard

Special bastard, one born of parents before marri-age, the parents afterwards intermarrying. By the Civil and Scots Law he would

Imbastardize

To bastardize to debase

Embastardize

To bastardize

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bastardise

Same as bastardize

Euphorbia

Spurge or bastard spurge a genus of plants of many species mostly shrubby herbaceous succulents affording an acrid milky juice Some

Manser

Manser, a bastard.

Mulier puisne

Mulier puisne. When a man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate son, the elder son is

Widow

for the issue. And see (English) Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 9, as to rights of succession of a bastard and succession to a bastard dying intestate. The Statutory Trusts (s. 47) are, in effect, for the children

Natural child

legitimate but not the natural offspring of a marriage, i.e., those who are born in wedlock, and never bastardized, although begotten in adultery and in fact the natural children of a stranger. See Shakespeare's King John, Act

Illegitimatize

To render illegitimate to bastardize

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