Bastard

[L. Lat. bastardus, from Brit, bastard, illegitimate; or according to Spelman from Germ, bastart, which he derives from bas, low, and metaphorically, spurious, impure, base; and start, Sax. steort, sprung, risen.] Of spurious origin, {impure editus;) base or low bom. An illegitimate child; one that is not only begotten, but bom out of lawful matrimony; [one who is bora of an il Uci t union.] Though the law is not so strict as to reqmre that a child shall be begotten, it makes it an indispensable condition to render it legitimate that it shall be horn after lawful wedlock.

1 Bl Com. 454. 2 Id. 247. See 2 Kent's Com. 208. 4 Id. 413. 1 Beeves* Hist. Eng.Law, 117, note.

A child bom after marriage, but under circumstances which render it impossible that the husband of his mother can be his father.

6 ^inn. 283. -5ac. ^6r.

Bastardy, A. Bouvier. A child bom beyond a competent time after the coverture has determined by divorce, or the death of the husband.

Id. 2 Stark. Evid. 196, et seq.