Husband and Wife.-
A man having been married privately to A, and lived with her as his wife in public for twenty years, and procreated several children; B after his death alleged a previous clandestine marriage with him. Mutual declarators were raised, and strong circumstances adduced by B to establish the first marriage; yet as she had entirely concealed her pretended marriage during her husband’s lifetime, and had several times been in company with him and A together, and owned her as his wife, it was found that she had not proved her prior marriage.
[1753] UKHL 1 – Paton – 519
Bailii
Scotland
Family
Updated: 09 January 2022; Ref: scu.558210