bastardy
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But Bracton does have a lot to say about monsters, duels, bastardy, concubines, sturgeon “and other royal fish,” the “pillory and the ducking-stool," and "a judgment with infamy.”
From Washington Post • May 9, 2022
That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019
To be called one's mother's son, as opposed to one's father's, was often an implication of bastardy, or at least a sign that one's paternity was unknown, whether divine or not.
From Time Magazine Archive
Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Deane then fell on the story of Polly Baker, and declared of his own certain knowledge that there had never been a law against bastardy in Massachusetts.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John
