Revolting to Humanity
Oversights, limitations, and complications of the English Legitimacy Act of 1926
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4347913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ginger S Frost (Samford University, corresponding author), Ginger Frost (0000-0003-0529-6325) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-46 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2011.536384 |
| PMID | 21299009 |
| OpenAlex | W2001950079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article analyses three areas that limited the effectiveness of the English Legitimacy Act of 1926. First, re-registration was public, expensive, and time-consuming. Second, the Treasury Office used the change in the law of intestacy to refuse more distant relatives' claims on estates. Third, the law separated legitimacy from nationality, thus denying citizenship to legitimated children born abroad of British fathers and foreign mothers. In short, both because of parliamentary oversights and civil servants' narrow interpretations of the law, relatively few children took advantage of the Act, and the minority who did, rather than being 'illegitimate' or 'legitimate', were a third category, the 'legitimated'
Citizenship · Civil servants · Humanity · Immigration · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Treasury · Australian History and Society · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Irish and British Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |