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
For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,� is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans.
From Time Magazine Archive
An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; Ð called also bastard bar.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
