pallio cooperire

/paeliyow kowo(w)parayriy/

In old English law, an ancient custom, where children were born out of wedlock, and their parents afterwards intermarried. The children, together with the father and mother, stood under a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnized. It was in the nature of adoption. The children were legitimate by the civil, but not by the common, law. They were called "mantle children" in Germany, France, and Normandy. The custom also existed in Scotland