affiliation order

noun

British, law

: order of filiation

… this included public disclosure of court cases where single mothers took the father of their child to court to obtain an affiliation order …

—North Devon Journal, 16 Mar. 2006

Word History

First Known Use

1832, in the meaning defined above

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