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Damnatus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from damnare, to condemn.] In old English law. Condemned; prohibited by law, unlawful. Damnatus coitus; an unlawful connexion. Bract, fol.

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4>wl ex daniial* c«it« ««•cmtar later llber««««ae*BipBC«iilar« They who are born of an unlawful connection are not reckoned among children. Id. ibid.

Co. Litt 8. 2 BL Com. 247.