BASTARDY

BASTARDY, crim. law. The offence of begetting a bastard child.

BASTARDY

BASTARDY, persons. The state or condition of a bastard. The law presumes every child legitimate, when born of a woman in a state of wedlock, and casts the onus probandi (q. v.) on the party wlio affirms the bastardy. Stark. Ev. h. t.