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80 F. Supp. 962 - Blethyn v. Bidder’s Empirical Analysis

1948

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1976
most recently cited

1 state decisions

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Relies on Broadwell v. Banks

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “The illegitimate children of a female and the issue of illegitimate children of a female are capable to take real and personal estate by inheritance from their mother, or from each other, or from the descendants of each other, as the case may be, in like manner as if born in lawful wedlock.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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