| 21. | Bastardy cases in the colonies involved women of high, low, and middle standing, similarly to England.
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| 22. | By the late eighteenth century, bastardy cases became exclusive to courts, and heard by judges and juries.
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| 23. | Early in colonial history, men took more of the responsibility for an act of fornication or a bastardy charge.
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| 24. | To avoid bastardy, the couple had the option of engaging in infanticide, the purposeful murder of a baby.
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| 25. | The establishment of a basic system for regulating bastardy cases came in 1705, and went largely unchanged until 1828.
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| 26. | This system essentially put into official writing the implementation and enforcement of bastardy laws that had existed prior to 1705.
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| 27. | English common law focused strongly on the legal issues surrounding bastard children, and thus created bastardy rules on those principles.
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| 28. | The courts made decisions on bastardy cases, and left the enforcement of any ruling given to the Overseers of the Poor.
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| 29. | This court had exclusive jurisdiction in marriage, divorce and bastardy, and a general jurisdiction in the same areas as the old courts.
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| 30. | Charles was the subject of Amiel Courtin-Wilson's 2008 documentary " Bastardy " which followed him for seven years.
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