| 1. | By the mid 1070s ecclesiastical courts heard cases that involved bastardy.
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| 2. | The Poor Law of 1576 formed the basis of English bastardy law.
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| 3. | The bolt of lightning was the bar sinister of bastardy.
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| 4. | Through the 1760s and the 1770s, the Overseers of the Poor regulated bastardy.
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| 5. | Raleigh defended the refusal of the barons to change the law of bastardy and legitimation.
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| 6. | However, in medieval England, there was no single mark of difference for bastardy.
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| 7. | Will not offspring be scarcer and scarcer, bastardy at that, the mothers prostitutes?
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| 8. | Bastardy laws existed both in English common law and within the laws of the colonies.
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| 9. | In French metonymic term for bastardy.
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| 10. | Any rebellious vassal, to legitimize his rebellion, could accuse the future queen of bastardy.
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