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Offline Bonaventure

Re: Any bastards here?
« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2020, 12:02:08 PM »
Quote from: Anonymous on January 19, 2020, 01:23:57 PM
That was a joke, obviously alluding to the secondary meaning of bastard, i.e. a scoundrel.

What makes you so sure?  poche's critics have been banned, so I'm not sure who here would be alluding to the secondary meaning of that word.
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Re: Any bastards here?
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2020, 01:18:01 PM »
Quote from: Bonaventure on January 20, 2020, 12:02:08 PM
What makes you so sure?

I was the one who posted that.  :laugh1:
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Offline AlanF

Re: Any bastards here?
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2020, 03:29:31 PM »
Quote from: Anonymous on January 20, 2020, 12:11:07 AM
If the parents finally marry some time after the birth is the child then legitimized?
Yes he is, according to Canon Law. 
Though English Common Law apparently disagrees so for civil matters he'll still be considered a bastard. I don't know if that's the same in the USA.
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Offline poche

Re: Any bastards here?
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2020, 02:06:49 AM »
Quote from: AlanF on January 23, 2020, 03:29:31 PM
Yes he is, according to Canon Law.
Though English Common Law apparently disagrees so for civil matters he'll still be considered a bastard. I don't know if that's the same in the USA.
In the United States they make no distinction between legitimate or illegitimate children in terms of inheritance. I know of an instance where a man was cheating on his wife. He died and his mistress was pregnant. The wife learned of the illegitimate child when the mistress sued for a portion of his estate. the child was able to inherit her portion.     
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solemn vows legitimize
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2020, 12:47:55 PM »
Quote from: Matthew on January 17, 2020, 03:42:23 PM
The Church wasn't wrong or in darkness when She considered illegitimacy to be an impediment to the Priesthood. And Vatican II wasn't more enlightened when it removed illegitimacy as an impediment.

Interestingly, a bastard taking solemn vows legitimizes himself:
1917 Code's canon 984:
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Illegitimate ones, whether the illegitimacy is public or occult, unless they were legitimated or professed solemn vows
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