1944-12: (The Child Inheritance Law — Lescot’s True Concern with Plasaj Being Less About Honorable Partnerships and More About Legitimacy, Sandwiched Between…

1944-12: (The Child Inheritance Law — Lescot’s True Concern with Plasaj Being Less About Honorable Partnerships and More About Legitimacy, Sandwiched Between the Wage and Marriage Tax Legislation Being the December 1944 Amendment That Authorized Research for Children’s Paternity and Gave Children Born Out of Marriage the Same Rights as Those Born in Marriage Specifically the Right to Inherit Land — Until 1944 If a Child Was Recorded as Illegitimate the Child Could Not Claim Inheritance): Lescot’s true concern with plasaj was less about honorable partnerships and more about legitimacy. Sandwiched between the wage and marriage tax legislation was the December 1944 amendment that authorized research for children’s paternity and gave children born out of marriage the same rights as those born in marriage — specifically, the right to inherit land. Until 1944, if a child was recorded as illegitimate, the child could not claim inheritance — the law had invented a category of children who could not own the land their mothers worked, the word “illegitimate” functioning as a deed restriction written not on property but on personhood.