LEGITIMATION, the act of conferring legitimacy (q.v.) on a person born out of wed lock. It is effected by act of the legislature, by adoption or by the subgequent marriage of the father and mother of the bastard. The latter means, however, can only be had provided the father and mother were free to marry at the time of the birth, and that there was no diri !tient impediment to such marriage. In Eng land, Ireland and in a few of the United States legitimation by subsequent marriage does not dbtain, the maxim there being, "once a bastard, always a bastard.° In most States, however, such a marriage legitimizes previous offspring. Complications arise where after the child s birth, one of the parents marries a third per son, has children, and after the dissolution of this marriage, marry. The general rule in such cases is to confer a status of legitimacy on the bastard child, but not to displace the legitimately-born children by the latter. See BASTARD; ILLEGITIMACY; LEGITIMACY; and con sult 'Legitimation by Subsequent Marriage) (in Journal of Society of Comparative Legisla tion, Vol. VI, new series, London 1906).
LtGITIME, Francois Denys, de-ne la-zhe-tem, Haitian general: b. 1842. During the administration of President Salo mon, he was accused of aspiring to the Presi dency, and accordingly went to Kingston, Jamaica, remaining three years, then returned to Haiti at the invitation of his followers, and on 7 Oct. 1888 was elected President of the provisional government. General Thilimaque denounced the election as a job, and attempted to make himself President, but he was killed in the battle which ensued. Legitime was elected President of Haiti 17 Dec. 1:•:•:, but resigned in 1889, owing to the opposition of General Hip polyte, and again retired to Jamaica. In 1896 President Sam granted a general amnesty, and he returned to Haiti.