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due process

called also procedural due process 2 : a requirement that laws and regulations must be related to a legitimate government interest (as crime prevention) and may not contain provisions that result in the unfair or arbitrary treatment

Antenati

marriage. In Scotland marriage removes the illegitimacy of antenati who inherit as heirs; but in England a child legitimated per subsequens matrimonium could not, before 1926, inherit real estate, Doe v. Vardill, (1835) 2 Cl & F

Prolem ante matrimonium natam, ut post legitimam, lex civilis succedere facit in h'reditate parentum; sed prolem, quam matrimonium non parit, succedere non sinit lex Anglorum

Prolem ante matrimonium natam, ut post legitimam, lex civilis succedere facit in h'reditate parentum; sed prolem, quam matrimonium non parit, succedere non sinit lex Anglorum.

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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 bastard eigne and the younger son is mulier puisne. See 2 Bl. Com.

Legitimacy Declaration Act, 1858 (English)

England, may apply to the High Court of Justice for a decree, declaring that the petitioner is the legitimate child of his parents, and that the marriage of his father and mother ,or of his grandfather and

Morganatic marriage

be considered as a just marriage. The marriage ceremony was regularly performed; the union was indissoluble; the children legitimate. This connection was very usual in Europe; but there is not proof that the concubines of Charlemagne and

McDonnell Douglas test

and suffered an averse employment action. If the plaintiff satisfies that burden, then the defendant must articulate a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for the employment action complained of. If the defendant satisfies that burden, then the plaintiff must

Marriage

parties, being incompetent to marry in England, have not married abroad to evade those restrictions. As to children, legitimated 'per subsequens matrimonium,' the English law did not, before the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5,

Lying-in hospitals

Lying-in hospitals, charities which could not be established without a previous licence from the quarter sessions; legitimate children born in them are not to be chargeable to the parish of their births, 13 Geo. 3,

Law and order and public order

school building was creating panic in the minds of the police personnel of the State from performing their legitimate duties in the maintenance of law and order in the State. Such acts are connected with 'public order',

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