Bastard Higne
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In old English law
Bastard elder. If a child was born of an illicit connection, and afterwards the parents intermarried and had another son, the elder was called “bastard eigne,” and the younger “mulier puisne,” %. e., afterwards burn of the wife.
See 2 Bl. Comm, 248.