"The mother is always certain."

"Bastardus est qui nascitur ante matrimonium. Nothus, natus ex patre nobili et matre ignobili: Spurius, natus ex matre…"

"Bastardus est triplex; Manser, incestuose natus"

"Cui pater est populus, pater est fibi nullus & Omnis. Cui pater est populus, non habet ille patrem."

"Much more of Foundlings, where neither Father nor Mother are known."

"Those which were begotten of married women were called Nothi because they seem to be his children whom the marriage d…"

"Nothus and Spurius are certainly not used in parish registers in the strict sense above defined, in fact, the terms u…"

"I rejoice to think that since the days of Queen Elizabeth, our laws have been so far humanized that a bastard child i…"

"SIR: One of your correspondents says the illegitimate child will always be an outcast under moral law; which sounds p…"

"There may be illegitimate parents—there can be no illegitimate child."