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filiation

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filiation noun affiliation, assignment of paternity, blood relationship, cognation, determination of a child's paaernity, family connection, fatherhood, fathership, kinship, parentage, paternity, relationship, ties of blood
Associated concepts: filiation proceeding
Foreign phrases: Semper praesumitur pro legitimatione puerorum.The presumption always is in favor of the legittmacy of children. Filiatio non potest probari. Filiation cannot be proved. Pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant. He is the father whom the marriage points out.
See also: ancestry, blood, bloodline, degree, descent, family, kinship, lineage, origin, parentage, propinquity, relationship


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