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Illegitimate children born of a prostitute. Bastards. The civil law distinguished between naturales, who were illegitimate children sprung from a marriage not considered lawful, or from concubinage as recognized by the law; and spurii (or vulgo concepti, as they are sometimes termed) who were the offspring of illicit intercourse. Legitimi were the children born of a lawful marriage.
