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Bastard eigne

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

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.