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‡FILIATE, v. Sc. Law usage: to determine the paternity of a child. Hence filiation, the act of or legal action for so doing. The corresp. Eng. terms affiliate, affiliation are now gen. employed also in Sc. law.Sc. 1810 Faculty Decisions (1808–10) 528:
Likeness to a supposed parent refused to be allowed in a question of filiation.Sc. 1828 J. Erskine Institute i. vi. § 50 Note:
The doctrine here laid down affords a solution of another question relative to the filiation of natural children. It has been decided that a copula at the distance of more than ten months preceding the birth does not filiate.Sc. 1906 Fraser Parent and Child 162:
Actions of filiation and aliment are usually commenced in the Sheriff Court.
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