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illegitimate definition - legal

adj

  1. Of a child, that he or she was born to parents not married to one another.
  2. Wrongful or unlawful.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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