Note 642 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
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S. v. Samuel (1836), 2 Dev. and Bat., 177-85; followed in S. v. Patterson (1842), 2 Iredell, N. C., 346-60; left undecided in S. v. Ta-cha-na-tah (1870), 64 N. C., 614. Cf. S. v. Robbins (1845), 6 Iredell, N. C., 23-27, where apparently a celebration, but not a license, is held essential to a valid marriage (25); and especially S. v. Wilson (1897), 121 N. C., 657, where it is declared that a marriage "pretendedly celebrated before a person not authorized would be a nullity."