legitimacy

legal status of a child born to parents who are legally married (or later granted trought legitimization)
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legitimacy

Summary

legitimacy is a legal term or legal concept[1]. legitimacy ranks in the top 4% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,559 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • legitimacy's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • legitimacy's instance of is recorded as social status[4].
  • legitimacy is a type of legality[5].
  • legitimacy is a type of legitimacy[6].
  • legitimacy is part of family law[7].
  • legitimacy is the opposite of illegitimacy[8].
  • legitimacy is the opposite of birth out of wedlock[9].
  • legitimacy comprises legitimate child[10].
  • legitimacy comprises legitimated child[11].
  • legitimacy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Legitimacy law[12].
  • legitimacy's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • legitimacy's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[14].
  • legitimacy's different from is recorded as legitimacy[15].

Body

Geography

legitimacy is part of family law[7].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include legal term or legal concept[3] and social status[4].

Why It Matters

legitimacy ranks in the top 4% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,559 views/month).[2] legitimacy has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] legitimacy is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of
    Instance of
    Subclass of legality, legitimacy
    Opposite of illegitimacy, birth out of wedlock
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007538398705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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