Bond v Pidding

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1933
• Date: 01 January 1933
• Court: High Court (Irish Free State)

I.F.S.]

Bond

and

Pidding

Child born before the marriage of her parents - Father domiciled in England Child legitimated in England by subsequent marriage of her parents - Whether legitimate in the Irish Free State - Law of domicile - Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), s. 1 - Legitimacy Act, 1931 (No. 13 of 1931).

M.'s parents were not married until two years after her birth. Their marriage took place in England in 1876, her father being domiciled in England. M.became legitimate in England by virtue of the British Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60). M. claimed to be one of the lawful next-of-kin of her father's sister, who died intestate on the 9th August, 1930, and whose estate was the subject of administration proceedings in the Irish Free State. Held, that M.'s claim was good, as the question of legitimacy was one of status, and status depended upon the law of domicile, and, as M. was legitimate in England on the 9th August, 1930, she was...