Bastardy n. : The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

Bastardy n. : The procreation of a bastard child.

Example:
Would you be in favor of bring back Bastardy laws?

Taxonomy
Legitimacy, illegitimacy, parents, marriage, illegitimate, births, illegitimate children, United States, law, History, free encyclopedia, legally, wedlock, unwed mothers, out-of-wedlock births, Europe, one another, common-law.

Defination from the web:
... (law) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Bastardy) Jump to: navigation, search. Family law. Entering into marriage ... abolished most, if not all, of the common-law disabilities of bastardy, as being violations of the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth ...