Marriage – Constitution of Do. – Circumstances in which a written acknowledgment of each other as husband and wife, not seriously gone into on the part of the female, but immediately repented of, did not constitute marriage.
At the annual market fair of Skirling, the appellant, Agnes Kello, who was the only daughter of a farmer in Skirling-Miln, became acquainted with the respondent Taylor, who had been a farmer in Birkenshaw. Taylor followed up this accidental meeting, by paying his addresses to her at her mother’s house; he made an impression on her. But her parents inquiring more particularly into his character, were not satisfied. Their daughter was possessed of andpound;2000, and her suitor was on the eve of a second bankruptcy. After eighteen months unsuccessfully soliciting her in marriage, he obtained the following writing signed by
Citations:
[1787] UKHL 3 – Paton – 56
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Scotland
Family
Updated: 23 March 2022; Ref: scu.581013