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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.