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2019

[Introduction to legitimizing children, by statute, to be added]

1857 Pamphlet Laws 507
Act of May 14, 1857, P.L. 507, No. 567
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To Legitimate Children Born out of Lawful Wedlock.
    SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in any and every case where the father and mother of an illegitimate child or children shall enter into the bonds of lawful wedlock and cohabit, such child or children shall thereby become legitimated, and enjoy all the rights and privileges as if they had been born during the wedlock of their parents.
    [Approved 14 May 1857.]

1858 Pamphlet Laws 413
Act of April 21, 1858, P.L. 413, No. 444
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Relating to Illegitimate Children.
    SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the act, entitled “An Act to legitimate children born out of lawful wedlock,” passed the fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, shall be taken to apply to all cases within the terms of that act prior to its date, as well as those subsequent thereto: Provided, That no estate already vested, shall be divested by this act.
    [Approved 21 April 1858.]

1868 Pamphlet Laws 67
Act of April 6, 1868, P.L. 67, No. 31
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To validate certain marriages and legitimatize the issue thereof.
    SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all the marriages, heretofore contracted between parties within the degrees of affinity, as prescribed in the thirty-ninth section of the act of twenty-first March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, of which issue is born, are hereby legalized, and the child or children of such marriages shall have all the rights and privileges of children born in lawful wedlock: Provided, That nothing in this act shall relate to marriages within the degrees of consanguinity as now prohibited by law.
    [Approved 6 April 1868.]