In Re Gossett's Estate

The question is whether the word child includes in its meaning an illegitimate child, as that word appears in the following statute hereafter referred to as the pretermission statute:

"If any person make his last will and die, leaving a child or children, or descendants of such child or children, in case of their death, not named or provided for in such will, although born after the making of such will, every such testator, so far as shall regard such child or children, or their descendants not provided for, shall be deemed to die intestate; and such child or children, or their descendants,…