bastardy

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A witty columnist sees a new concern with civility Bastardy was the harsh, old-fashioned word, then illegitimacy, but now the letter asks a little desperately about a "nonmarital family."

From Time Magazine Archive

Bastardy, it may be said in passing, carried with it small dishonour among the Italians.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Bastardy was no bar to hereditary right in Italy.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

In England a number of statutes on the subject hnve been passed, the chief being the Bastardy Act of 1845, and the Bastardy Laws Amendment Acts of 1872 and 1873.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

New Bastardy act, passed August 10, affording a greater measure of relief to unmarried mothers.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady