Bastard Eigne
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Fr. Basterdelder, or eldest. By the old common law, where a man had a bastard son, and afterwards married the mother, and by her had a legitimate son, the first or elder child, was termed bastard eigne ^'Bud. the second, or younger mulier puisne, or simply mulier, (filivLS mulieratus, the son of a mulier or wife.) Glanv. Ub. 7, c.
1. 2 Bl. Com. 247.
See Eigne, Mulier.