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Adulterine

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Begotten in an adul- ‘terous intercourse. In the Roman and cangyn daw, adulterine bastards were distinguished from such as were the issue of two unmartied persons, and the former were treated with more severity, not being allowed the siatus of natural children, and being ineligible te holy orders.