Bastardy Laws Amendment Act 1872
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and one, intituled "An Act for the further amendment of the laws relating to the poor in England:" And whereas it is expedient to amend the said recited Act with respect to proceedings in bastardy: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the autho...