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ACCESS, persons. Approach, or the means or power of approaching. Sometimes by access is understood sexual intercourse; at other times the opportunityof communicating together so that sexual intercourse may have taken place,is also called access. 1 Turn. & R. 141. 2. In this sense a man who can readily be in company with his wife, issaid to have access to her; and in that case, her issue are presumed to behis issue. But this presumption may be rebutted by positive evidence that nosexual intercourse took place. lb. 3. Parents are not allowed to prove non-access, for the purpose ofbastardizing the issue of the wife; nor will their declarations be receivedafter their deaths, to prove the want of access, with a like intent. 1 P. A.Bro. R. App. xlviii.; Rep. tem. Hard. 79; Bull. N. P. 113; Cowp. R. 592; 8East, R. 203; 11 East, R. 133. 2 Munf. R. 242; 3 Munf. R. 599; 7 N. S. 553;4 Hayw R. 221, 3 Hawks, R 623 1 Ashm. R. 269; 6 Binn. R. 283; 3 Paige's R.129; 7 N. S. 548. See Shelf. on Mar. & Div. 711; and Paternity.

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