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Mulierty

Mulierty, lawful issue, because begotten e muliere (of a wife), and not ex concubina, Co. Litt. 352.

Tail

seed; or children; or sons; or To A. And his heirs male; or To A. and his heirs lawfully begotten; or To A., and if he die before issue, or not having issue, or not having a son,

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Legitimacy

The state or quality of being legitimate or in conformity with law hence the condition of having been lawfully begotten or born in wedlock

Bastard

(Co. Litt. 123) (he is the father whom marriage designates); the child is legitimate if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock, and all the legal rights and privileges of a child attach, however conspicuous and notorious

natural

artificial c : arising from the usual course of events [a result of the accident] 3 a : begotten as distinguished from adopted b : being a relation by consanguinity as distinguished from adoption [ parents] 4

Reasonable doubt

of any of us about almost anything at some time or other; it does not mean a doubt begotten by sympathy out of reluctance to convict; it means a real doubt, a doubt founded upon reasons, K.

Frank-marriage

hold in frank-marriage, the donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten, i.e., in special tail, without the words of limitation such as 'heirs of his body.' The legal estate

Donis conditionalibus, Statute de

the lands should revert, was construed to give the donee a conditional fee, which enabled him, after issue begotten, to alien the land, and thereby to disinherit the issue and to deprive the donor of his right

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