Vulgar words in Our Legal Heritage (Page 1)
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It contained sleazy docks, prisons, gaming houses, brothels, and inns.
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Bastards were not heirs, even if their father married their mother after their birth.
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Still in existence is the old self-help law of hamsocne, the thief hand-habbende, the thief back-berend, the old summary procedure where the thief is caught in the act, AEthelstan's laws, Edward the Confessor's laws, and Kent's childwyte [fine for begetting a bastard on a lord's female bond slave].
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The ecclesiastical courts deemed marriage to legitimize bastard children whose parents married, so they inherited chattels and money of their parents.
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The mother and reputed father of any bastard who has been left to be kept at the parish where born must pay weekly for the upkeep and relief of such child, so that the true aged and disabled of the parish get their relief and to punish the lewd life.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 769 ~ ~ ~
It contained sleazy docks, prisons, gaming houses, brothels, and inns.
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Bastards were not heirs, even if their father married their mother after their birth.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,706 ~ ~ ~
Still in existence is the old self-help law of hamsocne, the thief hand- habbende, the thief back-berend, the old summary procedure where the thief is caught in the act, AEthelstan's laws, Edward the Confessor's laws, and Kent's childwyte [fine for begetting a bastard on a lord's female bond slave].
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,733 ~ ~ ~
The ecclesiastical courts deemed marriage to legitimize bastard children whose parents married, so they inherited chattels and money of their parents.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,687 ~ ~ ~
The mother and reputed father of any bastard who has been left to be kept at the parish where born must pay weekly for the upkeep and relief of such child, so that the true aged and disabled of the parish get their relief and to punish the lewd life.