Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings of the House of Lords on the Claims to the Barony of Gardner: With an Appendix Containing a Collection of Cases Illustrative of the Law of Legitimacy The earliest authority on this subject to which we can safely refer, is contained in the Digest, from whence it has descended into most of the codes of modern Europe. The same definition of legitimacy, though ex pressed in different terms, is given by two of the great Roman jurists. Paulus declares marriage to be proof of paternity whilst. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.