Note 637 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

See the opinion of Judge Redfield in Northfield v. Plymouth (1848), 20 Vt., 582, holding that a common-law marriage could not be regarded as valid without "virtually repealing our statutes," thus reversing the doctrine of Newbury v. Brunswick (1829), 2 Vt. 151; 19 Am. D., 703; and consult especially Morrill v. Palmer (1895), 68 Vt., 1-23, holding "that what ... Kent calls the 'loose doctrine of the common law,' in relation to marriage, was never in force in this state."