Access
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
persons, the means or power of approaching. In this sense a man who can readily be in company with his wife, is said to have access to her, and in that case her issue are presumed to be his issue. Parents are not allowed to prove non access for the purpose of bastardizing the issue of the wife, nor will their declarations after their deaths -be received to prove the want of access, with a like intent.
1 P. A. Bro. R. App. xlviii.; Rep. tem. Hard. 79; Bull. N. P. 118; Cowp. R. 592; 8 East R. 203; 11 East, R.133. _