Note 1384 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

Cochrane alias Kennedy v. Campbell: Paton's Reports of Cases decided in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, I (1726-57), 519-32; and Wilson and Shaw's Cases, III, 135, note. The appeal of the claimant was dismissed by the Lords for want of evidence; and only on this ground was that tribunal spared the cruel necessity of declaring void the marriage of persons who for many years had lived together openly as husband and wife. There are notices of the case in Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II. (2d ed., 1847), I, 336 ff.; Cobbett, Par. History, XV, 8; Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, II, 181.