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Pallio cooperire

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A marriage by the parents of bastard children whereat they formally adopted the children.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In old English law. An ancient custom, where chlidren were born out of wedlock, and their parents afterwards intermarried. The children, together with the father and mother, stood under a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnized. It was in the nature of adoption. The children were legitimate by the civll, but not by the common, law. Jacob.