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

In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I now call attention to the fact that Mr. Paine and Junius, when attacking the private character of men, both seem to delight, when the fact would fit, in charging bastardy: Paine.

From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel