Natural Child
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A bastard; a child born out of lawful wedlock. But in a statute declaring that adopted shall have all the rights of “natural” children, the word “natural” was used in the sense of “legitimate.”
9 Amer. Law Reg. (O. 8.) 747.
In Louisiana. Illegitimate children who have been adopted by the father. Civil Code La. art.
220.
In the civillaw. Aehild by natural relation or procreation; a child by birth, as distinguished from achild by adoption, Inst. ot, pr; 1d.3, 1, 2; Id. 3, 8 pr. A child by concubinage, in contradistinetion toa child by marriage.
Cod. 5, 27.