AFFILIATION

(Lat. ad, to, filius, a son.) In Law, the a ignment of a child to a parent by legal authority; as where the father of a bastard child is designated on the testimony of the woman, and the expenses of maintaining it cast upon him. By the Poor Law Amendment Act, s. 72., this can now only be done, after sufficient notice to the party intended to be charged, by an order of the court of quarter se ions, on the testimony of the woman, corroborated as to some material fact by other evidence. (See Bastard.) Affiliated societies, in politics, are local societies, depending on a central society with which they correspond, and from which they receive directions. Such were the provincial jacobin clubs, founded on the model of the jacobin club of Paris. Such, also, were the corresponding societies in England, for the suppre ion of which the statute 39 G. 3. c. 79. was chiefly pa ed. [s. 32]