QUESTION OF LEGITIMACY
SCOTTISH MARRIAGE LAW. AN INTERESTING DECISION. Pres* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 22. Mr Justice Ashmore decided, at Edinburgh, that under the Scottish law a woman was legally married to a man who died before the marriage. Further, that a child born was legitimate. The woman swore that she was engaged to be married and the banns were published, but the bridegroom died nine days before the date fixed for the wedding. The child was born eight months after the father’s death.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19206, 24 June 1924, Page 7
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