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Widow

Widow, a woman whose husband is dead and who has not remarried, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1592. A...

Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any...

Domicellus, a better sort of servant in monasteries; also an appellation of a king's bastard.

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Justum non est aliquem post mortem facere bastardum qui toto tempore vita sua pro legitimo habebatur [Lat.], It is not...

Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is...

Frater nutricius, a bastard brother.

Illegitimacy. born of parents not married to each other. See BASTARD. Means the state or condition of a child born...

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

Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium. The legitimation of a bastard by the subsequent marriage of his parents. Formerly not recognized by...

Manser, a bastard.

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