bastardy

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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

In condoning bastardy, North Dakota and Arizona are the most liberal States in the Union.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any legislation to prevent crime, which produces more crime, must be bad and unsound, whatever may be its basis: witness the bastardy clause, in the New Poor Law Bill.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick