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Natural child

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

Black's Law Dictionary

A bastard ; a child born out of lawful wedlock. But in a statute declaring that adopted shall have nil the rights of "natural" children, the word "natural" was used in the sense of "legitimate."

Bams v. Allen, 9 Am. Law Reg. (O. St) 747.

In Louisiana. Illegitimate children who have been adopted by the father. Civ. Code La. art.

220.

In the civil law. A child by natural relation or procreation ; a child by birth, as distinguished from a child by adoption.

Inst. 1, 11, pr.; Id. 3, 1, 2; Id. 3, 8, pr.

A child by concubinage, in contradistinction to a child by marriage.

Cod. 5, 27.