Bastardy
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. basiardia.] A defect of birth, objected to one begotten out of wedlock. Bract, fol.
405, 416.
This term is applied in the old books to pleas of illegitimacy, to suits for calling one a bastard, and generally to any examination or trial whether a man's birth be legitimate or not.
Cowell.
The state or condition of a bastard.
1 Bl. Com. 454.
See Bastard.
See Bastard.