How To Use bastardy In A Sentence
- Since it omitted adulterine bastardy, and required a subsequent marriage, this law had quite limited effects.
- Thus, laws criminalizing acts like adultery, spousal or parental abandonment, bastardy, prostitution, and fornication appeared.
- (Note the discrimination against the "unchaste" woman in the statutory law; whether this scruple was closely adhered to by the local courts in bastardy actions is uncertain, but as noted, there was no reference to the previous character of the mother in any of the southern Avalon cases herein.) Gutenber-e Help Page
- Since then not to be chastised is a mark of bastardy, we ought [not to refuse, but] rejoice in chastisement, as a mark of our genuine sonship" [Chrysostom]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
