Shalsea

Pallio cooperlre. Literally, to cover with a cloth. The phrase refers to an ancient English custom, according to which, when parents of children born out of wedlock afterwards intermarried, the children, together with the father and mother, stood under a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnizing. This was in the nature of adoption; and by such custom the children were taken to be legitimate in a popular sense; though by the common law the marriage of parents could not fully legitimate previously born children. See Jacob.