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Bastardy was not a status, like villeinage, but the fact of being a bastard had a number of legal effects on an individual.One exception to the general principle that a bastard could not inherit occurred when the eldest son (who would otherwise be heir) was born a bastard but the second son was born after the parents were married.
Conversely, illegitimacy, also known as bastardy, has been the status of a child born outside marriage, such a child being known as a bastard, a love child, a natural child, or illegitimate. In Scots law , the terms natural son and natural daughter carry the same implications.
A royal bastard is a child of a reigning monarch born out of wedlock. The king might have a child with a mistress, or the legitimacy of a marriage might be questioned for reasons concerning succession.
The mother of a bastard may summon the putative father to petty sessions within 12 months of the birth (or at any later time if he is proved to have contributed to the child's support within 12 months after the birth), and the justices, after hearing evidence on both sides, may, if the mother's evidence be corroborated in some material ...
A bastard is defined as a "(child) born out of wedlock or of adultery, illegitimate". [1] In other words, a bastard is any child that is born from the result of a sexual encounter between a man and a woman who are not married to each other; if either party is married, the couple has committed adultery.
He has a son, Jasper William Oliver Cable-Alexander, who was born in 1998 and is the product of Snowdon's affair with Melanie Cable-Alexander, a magazine editor.
Bastard of Winterfell, alias name of Jon Snow (character), in Game of Thrones; Bastardia, a genus of flowering plants; Bastardisation (disambiguation)
Young Dirty Bastard is effortlessly keeping the legacy of his father, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, alive. The late New York rapper (known as ODB) was not only one of the founding members of the legendary ...