In revenge Cleomenes accused Demaratus ofillegitimacy and secured his deposition in favour of Leotychides (Herod.
It should also be mentioned that illegitimacy was not a bar.
For instance, the Danish penal laws directed against illegitimacy were barbarous; they called for reform, but Struensee swept them away altogether.
It proceeded to declare Mary legitimate, though by so doing it did not invalidate Elizabeth's title as heir presumptive, since that rested on Henry's will, which had ignored equally the illegitimacy of both his daughters.
All evidence of the illegitimacy might be destroyed.
If, as Henry afterwards caused it to be proclaimed, the declaration of the illegitimacy of the children of Edward IV.
Such are the statements that witnesses and other evidence were produced to establish the illegitimacy of King Edward's children,[25] and that Richard intended to treat his nephews with kindness and consideration.
His wife's illegitimacy {275} made her cousin the rightful heir, and hence another crime seemed necessary.
Owing to his illegitimacy the eldest boy, who had been proclaimed King and soon afterwards set aside, could not retain the titles of Wales and Cornwall, nor could the younger one continue to have the royal title of York.
All evidence of the illegitimacy had been hidden out of sight.
Illegitimacy is frequently the result of feeble-mindedness, since feeble-minded women are peculiarly unable to resist temptation.
In most countries illegitimacy is decreasing; in Germany it is steadily increasing, alike in rural and urban districts.
Grünspan considers that this increase in illegitimacy is likely to continue, and he is inclined to attribute it less to economic than to social-psychological causes.
Their descendants, though tainted with illegitimacy in both cases, had joined to form the royal family of Spain.
On this basis the nobles offered peace to the king, and he consented, which for the second time put him in the position of acknowledging the dishonor of his wife and the illegitimacy of Juana.
Or do all those who advocate the abolition of illegitimacy take the ground, which some of them definitely do, that the monogamic family is obsolete and that the state in its corporate capacity should take full charge of all children?
What is Meant by the Demand that Illegitimacy be Abolished?
That there had been a precontract or marriage between Edward the Fourth and lady Eleanor Talbot; and that Richard's claim to the crown was founded on the illegitimacy of Edward's children.
As Richard gained the crown by the illegitimacy of his nephews, his causing them to be murdered, would not only have shown that he did not trust to that plea, but would have transferred their claim to their sisters.
No one had ever heard of a case of illegitimacy in the oaza but there had been in the twelve months three cases which pointed to abortion.
It seemed to have been a long time since there had been a case of what we should call illegitimacy or of a child being born in the first months of a young couple's marriage.
In Japan illegitimacy is a question not of morals but of law.
In Ehime, for example, there was very little illegitimacy and fewer children still-born than in any other prefecture.
No proof of John's suspected illegitimacywas forthcoming.
And you must have proofs of hisillegitimacy if you will only give them.
Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.
Illegitimacy holds in the problem of rural feeble-mindedness the same position that prostitution occupies in urban amentia.
His illegitimacy seemed to be known to others, and there was every prospect of a new will's supplanting the old one, in its more important provisions, at least.
Were it otherwise, and the passions in both sexes equal, illegitimacy and prostitution would be far more rife in our midst than at present.
Their operation as an encouragement of illicit intercourse can not be estimated without some minute inquiries into the illegitimacy of places which encourage them, and of others which are without them.
At first this is not apparent, for illegitimacy is as frequent in one as the other; but there are attendant qualifying circumstances, which go to constitute a material variation in the conclusion to be drawn from the unexplained fact.
Illegitimacy is of considerable extent, averaging one in five, or, in some parts, one in three of the total births.
Whether this custom favors illegitimacy is still a disputed point in Denmark.
Illegitimacy is somewhat regulated by the disproportionate number of the sexes.
Here, then, we see at once that illegitimacy and prostitution are not the same thing.
In other words illegitimacy should be abolished and, marriage or no marriage, every child should be duly entitled to every right of inheritance, etc.
The high position of the Egyptian woman is significantly indicated by the fact that her child was never illegitimate; illegitimacy was not recognized even in the case of a slave woman's child.
It is certain in any case that, for a long time past, illegitimacy has been more prevalent in Vienna than in any other great European capital.
The illegitimacy of his rule isolated the tyrant and surrounded him with constant danger, the most honorable alliance which he could form was with intellectual merit, without regard to its origin.
But the highest and the most admired form of illegitimacy in the fifteenth century was presented by the Condottiere, who whatever may have been his origin, raised himself to the position of an independent ruler.
As soon as love was allowed a voice in the arrangement of marriages illegitimacy decreased rapidly.
As the details given in these pages regarding licentiousness before marriage and wife-lending after it show, there is no possible way of proving illegitimacy unless the child has a white father.
He said that illegitimacy cannot justly be held to reflect on anybody's conduct, since, so he had always understood, illegitimacy was birth from natural causes.
The relations of Mr Faulkland, as he had foreseen, claimed his estate, and at length obtained it, the illegitimacy of the child being proved.
I can't conceive that any retrospective clause of the Act could declare valid a marriage the illegitimacy of which the parties themselves had acknowledged during the period of its legal invalidity.
Have you not acknowledged theillegitimacy of yours?
But I am not prepared to acknowledge the illegitimacy of my marriage with Marianne.
It was just as easy to fabricate papers showing her illegitimacy as to fabricate those produced; and probably such papers would not be very rigorously scrutinized.
In a great number of cases the nature of the illegitimacy is soluto genitus et soluta--born of a single man and single woman; it is very possible that a number of sons of the clergy may be included in this formal legal description also.
Illegitimacy and servile origin were both defects of birth.
Apart from the reference to the illegitimacy of William Franklin, Franklin had passed through the heated contest with the Proprietaries without the slightest odor of fire upon his garments.
The illegitimacy of William Franklin, of course, was freely used during the conflict as a means of paining and discrediting Franklin.
Clotaire's care was the more necessary as illegitimacy did not, amongst the ancient Franks, debar the offspring's right to the crown.
And where marriage is prohibited, illegitimacy is sure to flourish.
Prostitution flourishes and illegitimacy increases where soldiers are quartered; the army is a bad school of morals.
The reason why society cannot afford to be lenient with illegitimacy is that there is no proper provision for rearing children born out of wedlock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illegitimacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bastard; baton; illegitimate; unlawfulness
