Legitimacy in Europe

Definition of Legitimacy

The condition of being born in lawful wedlock. Under the Judicature Act, 1925, s. 188, a natural-born subject of Great Britain may apply to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division for a declaration that he is legitimate, or that his parents or grandparents were validly married, or that he himself is validly married, or that he is a natural-born subject of the King. A judgment made on such a petition is in rem, that is binding on all the world.
By the Legitimacy Act, 1926, where the parents of an illegitimate person marry or have married one another, if the father was at the date of the marriage domiciled in England and Wales, it shall render that person, if living, legitimate from the commencement of the Act, or from the date of the marriage, unless the father or mother was married to a third person when the illegitimate child was born. The Act also entitles a legitimated person to take property after the date of legitimation as if he had been born legitimate.
An illegitimate child and the mother become entitled to succeed to each other’s property on intestacy

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Definition of Legitimacy is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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