All doubt on this subject is set at rest by a formal legitimation from Martin V.
Before his legitimationthe eldest son of John of Gaunt by Katharine Swinford is said to have borne a shield party silver and azure with the arms of Lancaster on a bend.
After his legitimation in 1397 he changed his bearings to the royal arms of France and England within a border gobony of silver and azure.
No sooner had Catherine's legitimation given her the value of a piece on the political chess-board, than she became involved in the moves of the game.
This lie made the legitimation of the child possible, and also conferred upon it the rights of succession; and this having once been embodied in a legal document, the Pope could, without injury to the child, tell the truth.
Letters of Legitimation of John and William Hammylton, bastard sons of Grissel Sempill, daughter of Robert Master of Sempill, were dated 9th Oct.
On the previous month, he obtained a letter of legitimation for his bastard son Alexander.
One effect which accompanied the measures he took was naturally the exclusive legitimation of the king's priesthood at Jerusalem.
This legitimation presented great difficulties during the life of the Marquis de Montespan.
That old Maintenon has continued pretty tranquil until the termination of the process relating to the legitimation of the bastards.
Resort to fraud, in any guise and under any legitimation of law or custom, is an expression of a narrowly self-regarding habit of mind.
The Privy Seal Records of Scotland for the earlier years of the sixteenth century have been preserved, and are full of entries of legitimation of the bastard children of Scottish prelates and priests.
The legitimationof bastard children was necessary before they could inherit or dispose of property, and exercise other legal rights.
Japan, it may be added, has adopted the principle of the automatic legitimation by marriage of the children born to the couple before marriage.
The certificate, as usually advocated, would be a private but necessary legitimation of the marriage in the eyes of the civil and religious authorities.
This method of legitimation was accepted by the canon law, by the legal systems of the continent of Europe, of Scotland and of some of the states of the United States.
In Scotland, bastards could be legitimized in two ways: either by the subsequent intermarriage of the mother of the child with the father, or by letters of legitimation from the sovereign.
Legitimation effected by the subsequent marriage of the parents of the illegitimate child is technically known as legitimation per subsequens matrimonium.
In all cases the legitimation is retrospective, taking effect from the birth of the child.
But any gratification which she might have promised herself, in this her favourite place of residence, was cruelly blighted by the legitimation of the son of Madame de Verneuil, which was formally registered at this period.
Donald Dubh MacChreggir, priest of Kirkhill, was despatched to Rome with that object, and, according to several of the family manuscripts, procured the legitimation of the marriage.
This inquiry does not presume to deal with the origin or the legitimation of the postulates of science, but only with the growth of the habitual use of these postulates, and the manner of using them.
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