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THE NEWHILLS MARRIAGE CASE

... James Dyce, desires to marry ix Elspeth Tosh, who is the natural daughter of a si son of his deceased wife bv a former husband. ti I doubt much whether persons so related can ai lawfully marry. It is evident that if p one may not marry his wifes daughter ...

EXTRAORDINARY BREACH OF PROMISE CASE

... world. He wanted to he married vithill a fortoight or three weeaks, bhat we objected to that, and the. oth of August was fixed for the wedding. The defendant spoke to Dr. Adler, and said, Am 1 nost right. Doctor. in getting married? And the Doctor sr-iJ ...

A ROMANTIC ACTION IN THE PROBATE COURT

... eeek -the shelter of the poor- house. Subseq'nently the mother was married again to a man named Stephen Francis who worked with a man named Algar, to whom darriet Charlotte was married at the age of 17. Shortly after her marriage Mrs Algar left her husband ...

AN EXTRAORDINARY BUCHAN COURTSHIP

... but I have advised him to with. draw that charge. ilis intention to marry the girl is bot i (ide: he explains that tho girl is perfectly willing to marry him, and he is; willing to marry iar. But he has not had an opportunity. The Fiscal-There was no house ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... was boarded. The married woman who had the child agreed to adopt it, and Jane Thomson and her parents gave it over very much against the prisoner'a w ish, for sle had a great affection for the boy. A sum of money was paid to the married woman. That was ...

A CURIOUS CASE OF BIGAMY

... son to Francis Marshall, ship- u owner, had been married at Paddington Church, to Si Sophia Darson, widow, on the 3d of July 1858, and w that on the 28th of June in the present year lie was t, married at St George's, Hanover Square, to Jane Hayes, widow ...

AMUSING BREACH OF PROMISE CASE

... seen her, and that she had promised them to marry you ?-No; she said it with her own lips. The pursuer's aunt was pext examined, and deponed to having heard the defender promise in the public-bouse to marry the pursuer, and that she said her brother would ...

SCOTCH BREACH OF PROMISE CASE

... defender joking about being married to pursuer, hut after he knew the situation she was in be told witness seriously that he would marry her as soon as he was better in health. He said he would provide for her if he did not marry her. Wim. Henderson, the ...

COURT OF SESSION

... sometime residing in Fraserburgh, but whose pre. sent address is unknoan. Pursuer, examkied by Mr Macaulay Smith. said she was married to the defender in October, 1882. at Fraserbhrghk Shortly after her husband -gave way to intemperate habits. and he treated ...

A NEW DEER BREACH OF PROMISE CASE

... that she was to go home aand to got her things ready to get married. She left about the New Year, and it was arrangod, in consequemics of her being with child, that they saliould get married sooner than was at first in- tended, and the dlate was fixed ...

SINGULAR BIGAMY CASE

... hereby give my husband Frederick my full and free consent to again marry at his own discretion. Instead of getting a divorce the defendant thought e that document justified him in marrying again, and entered into a contract of matrimony with his second ...

COURT OF SESSION

... M'iLaren-That is an American idea of married life, (Lsughter.) Wit. ness said the only reason for Mrs Cooper leaving i her husband that he knew of was that she was too I young when she got married, and did not know 'what married life was. He had written her in ...