Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Illegitimacy
The state or condition of a child born outside a lawful marriage. - Also termed bastardy.
Legitimacy
1.Lawfulness. 2. The status of a person who is born within a lawful marriage or who acquires that status by later action of the parents. Cf. ILLEGITIMACY.
declaration of legitimacy
See DECLARATION
presumption of legitimacy
The presumption that the husband of a woman who gives birth is the father of the child.