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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… of Mackelstoun, and fallen to the Crown by reason of the bastardy of McCreish and his dying without lawful heirs and … of infeftments, confirmations, gifts of recognitions, bastardy, last heir, escheats and others whatsoever . . . …
Journal of the House of Lords
… you turned your Attention at all to the Effects of the Bastardy Laws? Yes; we have had a great deal of Expence … on the Parish, or another Person does not obey the Laws of Bastardy, to regard no Expence; we will have them if we … in consequence of the defective State of the Law of Bastardy. The Rule, I conceive, ought to be that an Order of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the Times above respectively specified. [290] "Orders of Bastardy should be punctually enforced. The Demand for …
Journal of the House of Lords
… greatly arise from the Operation of the Laws relating to Bastardy; will you suggest any Improvement that occurs to you … I am not old enough to speak to that. Do you consider the Bastardy Laws a great Encouragement to improvident Marriages? …
Journal of the House of Lords
… you turned your Attention to the Effect of the Laws of Bastardy upon the Morals of the Lower Orders? [329] I have … was supposed, until some few Years back, that an Order of Bastardy having been made and served upon any Individual, he … that every Person, having been served with an Order of Bastardy, should, if he absents himself from the Parish on …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Have you turned your Attention to the Effect which the Bastardy Laws have in the Encouragement of early Marriages? I …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Settlement? [362] I would suggest an Alteration in the Bastardy Laws. The Bastardy Laws proceed upon the Principle of indemnifying the … Case. For myself, I am so convinced of the Iniquity of the Bastardy Laws, that I have always refrained from acting upon …
Journal of the House of Lords
… they do not belong. Another Branch of the Subject is the Bastardy Laws, which appear to have been intended to protect … than Three Years uninterrupted Residence. With respect to Bastardy, do you not think that the present Law, which makes … any Objection to altering the whole of the Law respecting Bastardy? Not the least. I think if it was done away with …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Property deteriorated in Value, Dawson, 265. Alford, Bastardy Laws, former and present, improved Administration of … 398. 399. Bastard Children, few in Scotland, Pym, 390. Bastardy Laws, Orders of, should be enforced, Becher, 290. - … Pym, 387. 388. - Acres of Common Land in, Pym, 387. 388. - Bastardy Laws, as practised in, Pym, 384. - Capital, more, …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… That all Forfeitures, Escheats, Simple, or of Life, Rent Bastardy, and last Heir, which heretofore Escheated, …