Basse Justice

In feudal law. Low justice; the right of a feudal lord to try persons accused of petty offenses or trespasses. BASTARD (has or bast, abject, low, base; aerd, nature). One born of an illicit connection. It includes children begotten and born out of lawful wedlock, whose parents do not subsequently marry, and children born in wedlock, but begotten of an adulterous intercourse. A child begotten out of wedlock, but whose parents marry before its birth, is legitimate (62 Iowa, 343; 43 Ohio St. 473; 75 Pa. St. 433), and, by the weight of authority, a marriage after the birth renders -the child legitimate (9 Ala. 965; 85 Ind.. 357; 38 Ky. 170; 20 Tex. 731). The child of a voidable marriage is legitimate (13 Iowa, 198), but, at common law, the issue of a void marriage is a bastard (22 Md. 468; 1 N. J. Eq. 96); but by statute in many states, such issue is made legitimate if the marriage was in good faith.