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Colonial America bastardy laws were laws, statutes, or other legal precedents set forth by the English colonies in North America.This page focuses on the rules pertaining to bastardy that became law in the New England colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania from the early seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century.
In most national jurisdictions, the status of a child as a legitimate or illegitimate heir could be changed—in either direction—under the civil law: A legislative act could deprive a child of legitimacy; conversely, a marriage between the previously unmarried parents, usually within a specified time, such as a year, could retroactively ...
This is a list of at least 351 people executed in Massachusetts, United States. ... Murder of her illegitimate child [14] 1788-07-06 Hanging Suffolk 92 [12] John O ...
Only one man was ever prosecuted under this law during the colony's history. In 1665 John Porter Jr was charged with being a stubborn and rebellious son after abusing his parents and their servants, attempting to stab one of his brothers, using threatening and reviling language against them and one of the colony's magistrates, and generally being "vile, prophane, & common swearer & drunkard".
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has apprehended an illegal alien from Guatemala in Massachusetts, who was charged with multiple counts of child rape.. ICE said 49-year-old Jose ...
The Massachusetts General Laws is a codification of many of the statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth's laws are promulgated by an elected bicameral ("two-chamber") legislative body, the Massachusetts General Court. The resulting laws—both Session Laws and General Laws—together make up the statutory law of the ...
An illegitimate child, one whose parents were not legally married, usually has the same claims as any other child under statutory inheritance. Nowadays legitimacy rarely affects an individual's ...
The Law on Family Matters of 16 December 1997 [5] further enhanced the legal protections, but a disadvantage remained with regard to illegitimate children born before 1949. Even if recognized, those children could not be their statutory heirs. This led to the case Brauer v. Germany in 2009, which overturned this inequality. [6] [7]: 87