Illegitimate

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Meaning of Illegitimate

An illegitimate child is a child born of parents who are not legally married. If a child is born to a married woman, and is actually the offspring of her sexual intercourse with someone other than her husband, the law presumes that the child is legitimate as it is still the offspring of the woman who is legally married. The presumption can be rebutted by showing that the husband had no access to the wife at the probable time of conception . A child artificially conceived while the mother was lawfully married has been held to be a legitimate child. See People v Sorenson, 66 Cal. Rptr. 7, 437 P.2d 495, 68 C.ed280.

Illegitimate Alternative Definition

That which is contrary to law. It is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock.

Synonyms of Illegitimate

(Bom out of wedlock), adjective

  • adulterine
  • baseborn
  • bastard
  • misbegot
  • misbegotten
  • nothus
  • of illicit union
  • unlawfully begotten
  • unnatural
  • Associated Concepts: illegitimate children
  • legitimation
  • paternity proceeding
  • presumption of legitimacy foreign phrases: Parentum est liberos alere atiam nothos
  • It is the duty of parents to support their children even when illegitmate
  • Qui nascitur sine legitimo matrimonio
  • matrem sequitur
  • He who is born out of lawful matrimony succeeds to the condition of his mother
  • Non est justum aliquem antenatumpost mortem facere bastardum qui toto tempore vitae suae pro legitimo habebatur
  • It is not just to make anyone a bastard after his death
  • who during his lifetime was regarded as legitimate
  • Justum non est aliquem antenatum mortuum facere bastardum
  • qui pro tota vita suapro legitimo habetur
  • It is not just to make a bastard after his death one elder born who all his life has been accounted legitimate
  • Qui ex damnato coitu nascuntur inter liberos non computentur
  • They who are born of an illicit union should not be reckoned among the children

(Illegal), adjective

  • against the law
  • banned
  • contrary to law
  • criminal
  • forbidden
  • illicit
  • impermissible
  • improper
  • interdicted
  • lawbreaking
  • malfeasant
  • non legitimus
  • not according to law
  • not permitted
  • outlawed
  • outside the law
  • prohibited
  • prohibited by law
  • proscribed
  • unallowed
  • unauthorized
  • unlawful
  • unlicensed
  • unsanctioned
  • wrongful

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