Bowdle v. Buell

Citations

• 26 Del. 347
• 3 Boyce 347
• 83 A. 1084
• 1912 Del. LEXIS 38

Syllabus

<p>1. Bastards—Bond.</p> <p>The statutes regarding bastardy were primarily designed to prevent a bastard child from becoming a charge on the state, and the bond which the law exacts from the father when paternity is established is to indemnify the state in the event of the child becoming a charge on it.</p> <p>2. Bastards—Legal Settlement—Nonresidence—Jurisdiction.</p> <p>Under Rev. Code 1852, amended to 1893, p. 375, c. 48, § 12, providing that the birthplace of a person is the place of his legal settlement, where a bastard was not born in Delaware, and it did not clearly appear that the mother was a resident of the state, the bastard had no place of legal settlement in Delaware, and not being chargeable, for that reason, for its support and maintenance on any county of the state, the courts thereof had no jurisdiction of bastardy proceedings against the putative father.</p>