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Filiation : \Fil`i*a"tion\, n.
1. Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like
that of a son; as, to determine the filiation of a
language.
2. One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot;
as, the filiations are from a common stock.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Filiation : \Fil`i*a"tion\, n. [LL. filiatio, fr. L. filius son:
cf. F. filiation. See Filial.]
1. The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a
father.
The relation of paternity and filiation. --Sir M.
Hale.
2. (Law) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its
father; affiliation. --Smart.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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FILIATION, civil law. The descent of son or daughter, with regard to his or
her father, mother, and their ancestors.
2. Nature always points out the mother by evident signs, and whether
married or not, she is always certain: mater semper certa est, etiamsi vulgo
conceperit. There is not the same certainty with regard to the father, and
the relation may not know or feign ignorance as to the paternity the law has
therefore established a legal presumption to serve as a foundation for
paternity and filiation.
3. When the mother is or has been married, her husband is presumed to
be the father of the children born during the coverture, or within a
competent time afterwards; whether they were conceived during the coverture
or not: pater is est quem nuptice demonstrant.
4. This rule is founded on two presumptions; one on the cohabitation
before the birth of the child; and the other that the mother has faithfully
observed the vow she made to her husband.
5. This presumption may, however, be rebutted by showing either that
there has been no cohabitation, or some physical or other impossibility that
the husband could be the father. See Access; Bastard; Gestation; Natural
children; Paternity; Putative father. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 302, et seq.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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