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Bastard Eigne

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Bastard elder

By the old English law, when a man had a bastard son, and he afterwards married the mother, and by her had a legitimate son was called puisne, or since bom, or sometimes he was cilled mulier puisne.

See 2 Bl. Comm. 248.