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[1765] Mor 1358      

Subject_1 BASTARD.
Subject_2 SECT. VIII.

Who entitled to the Custody of a Bastard Child.

Short
v.
Donald

Date: 21 February 1765
Case No. No 18.

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The mother was preferred to the custody of a bastard daughter, though claimed by the father, as being past seven years of age, and capable of education, which he said he intended to bestow on her. The father here was married to another woman.

See The particulars of the case, p. 442.

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