bastardy
Example Sentences
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But Bracton does have a lot to say about monsters, duels, bastardy, concubines, sturgeon “and other royal fish,” the “pillory and the ducking-stool," and "a judgment with infamy.”
From Washington Post • May 9, 2022
That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019
In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the young Arkady, illegitimate son of an aristocrat named Versilov, reared in loneliness in a series of boarding schools, and fiercely aware of his bastardy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether it would tend to increase or decrease maintenance and bastardy orders I have not the least idea.
From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott
