ORDER OF FILIATION
(bouvier) | ORDER OF FILIATION. The name of a judgment tendered by two justices, having
jurisdiction in such case, in which a man therein named is adjudged to be
the putative father of a bastard child; and it is farther adjudged that he
pay a certain sum for its support.
2. The order must bear upon its face, 1st. That it was made upon the
complaint of the township, parish, or other place, where the child was born
and is chargeable. 2d. That it was made by justices of the peace having
jurisdiction. Salk. 122, pl. 6; 2 Ld. Raym. 1197. 3d. The birth place of the
child; 4th. The examination of the putative father and of the mother; but,
it is said, the presence of the putative father is not requisite, if he has
been summoned. Cald. It. 308. 5th. The judgment that the defendant is the
putative father of the child. Sid. 363; Stile, 154; Dalt. 52; Dougl. 662.
6th. That he shall maintain, the child as long as he shall be chargeable to
the township, parish, or other place, which must be named. Salk. 121, pl. 2;
Comb. 232. But the order may be that the father shall pay a certain sum
weekly as long as the child is chargeable to the public. Stile, 134; Vent.
210. 7th. It must be dated, signed, and, sealed by the justices. Such order
cannot be vacated by two other justices. 15 John. R. 208; see 8 Cowen, R.
623; 4 Cowen, R. 253; 12 John. R. 195; 2 Blackf. R. 42.
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