Filiation
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. filiatio, from filius, a child.] The fact which creates the relation of parent and child. Hubback's Evid. of Success.
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The adjudging of a bastard to be the child of a certain man. The fixing of a bastard child on some one as its father.
Webster.
See Affiliation.
See Affiliation.