# Does "legitimacy" have any meaning outside of European title inheritance?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-legitimacy-have-any-meaning-outside-of-european-title-inheritance/408852
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 21, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-legitimacy-have-any-meaning-outside-of-european-title-inheritance/408852 "2007-06-21T13:44:07Z")
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-legitimacy-have-any-meaning-outside-of-european-title-inheritance/408852/21 "2007-06-22T23:50:44Z")
[QUOTE=t-bonham@scc.net]
So Jesus Christ, if he existed, was a **mamzer**?
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Well since _ **יהוה** _ issued the law in the first place presumably he can make any exceptions he wants. Of course since Jews don’t believe Jesus was the son of god it’s kinda of a moot point.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-legitimacy-have-any-meaning-outside-of-european-title-inheritance/408852/22 "2007-06-23T04:07:12Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig]
By Gad, you’re right. It sounds like it [still is](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02579b.htm) an impediment to ordination!
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I’m not sure if that is still the case under the current Code of Canon Law. A lot of those articles on the New Advent site are copied from an edition of the Catholic Encyclopaedia whose articles are based on the pre-1983 Code of Canon Law.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-legitimacy-have-any-meaning-outside-of-european-title-inheritance/408852/23 "2007-06-23T14:08:49Z")
Getting back to the general question posed by the OP, in Canada I believe all provinces and territories have abolished the legal distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children. All children have the same rights with respect to inheritance, child support, etc.
What’s the situation in other countries under their civil laws (not canon law)?
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-legitimacy-have-any-meaning-outside-of-european-title-inheritance/408852/24 "2007-06-30T19:38:53Z")
What, no love for foreign bastards? 😃
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