Mark Sutherland-Fisher wrote: > Evening everyone, As it happens I took what was probably one of the > last cases of a "habit and repute" marriage to the Court of Session > in the late 1980s for a Ross-shire client who had lived with her > "husband" for around a decade. She had originally been his > housekeeper but became known as his wife. His daughter opposed the > claim and so it was fought out in Scotland's highest court of first > instance. Ultimately she lost because the daughter said she had never > been more than her father's "bide in" i.e. cohabitee. Many other > witnesses had said they lived socially as a married couple and were > called as such. Needless to say there was a house at stake. Win some, lose some. Were you ever involved with a case where a "habit and repute" marriage WAS held to be valid? And if so, was that marriage then recorded in the relevant Register of Marriages? Gavin Bell