Illegitimacy
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Illegitimacy is the status that was once commonly ascribed to individuals born to parents who were not married. A corresponding legal term was bastardy. The child's status could be changed in either direction by civil (as in the case of the Princes in the Tower) or canon law. In some jurisdictions, marriage of an illegitimate child's parents after its birth resulted in the child's legitimation, the child's legal status then changing to "special bastardy."
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See also
- Bastard (Law of England and Wales)
- Defect of Birth
- Haram zada
- Illegitimacy in fiction
- Legitimacy law in England and Wales
- Marks of distinction
- Non-paternity event (medical concept)
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