Note 638 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
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See the opinion of Chief Justice Gilchrist in Dumbarton v. Franklin (1848), 19 N. H., 257, rejecting as irrelevant Judge Woodbury's obiter dictum in Londonderry v. Chester (1820), 2 N. H., 268-81, usually cited to sustain the common-law marriage; but this objection to it is scarcely valid.