bastardy
Example Sentences
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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
But the argument quickly picked up steam when the talk turned to bastardy among the bluebloods.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The governors of English gaols will tell you that 90 per cent. of the debtors lying in prison to-day for civil debt, rates, maintenance or bastardy orders and small fines are too poor to pay.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
