Bastard Eigne
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Bastard elder. By the old English law, when a man had a bastard son, and he afterwards married the mother, and by her had a legitimate son was called puisne, or since bom, or sometimes he was cilled mulier puisne. See 2 Bl. Comm. 248.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bastard elder. By the old English law, when a man had a bastard son, and he afterwards married the mother, and by her had a legitimate son, the first was called a bastard eigne, or, as it is now spelled, aine, and the second son was called puisne, or since born, or sometimes he was called mulier puisne. 2 Bla. Com. 243.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In old English law. Bastard elder. If a child was barn of an. illicit connection, and afterwanis the parente intermarried and had another son. the elder was called "bastard eigne," and the younger, "mulier puisne," i. e., afterwards bom of the wife. See 2 Bl. Comm. 248.
Defined under Bastard in Black's Law Dictionary.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Fr. Basterdelder, or eldest. By the old common law, where a man had a bastard son, and afterwards married the mother, and by her had a legitimate son, the first or elder child, was termed bastard eigne ^'Bud. the second, or younger mulier puisne, or simply mulier, (filivLS mulieratus, the son of a mulier or wife.) Glanv. Ub. 7, c. 1. 2 Bl. Com. 247. See Eigne, Mulier.