Report of Two Cases Upon the Marriage Law of Ireland

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Excerpt from Report of Two Cases Upon the Marriage Law of Ireland: Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, in Ireland in Easter and Trinity Terms 1842 The prisoner was tried for bigamy at the last Spring Assizes for the County of Antrim, held at Carrickfergus, before Mr. Justice Perrin, when the jury, under the direction of his lordship, found the following special verdict: - "We find, that about thirteen years ago, to wit, in January, 1829, the prisoner, George Milles, accompanied by Hester Graham, then spinster, and three other persons, went to the house of the Reverend John Johnston, at Banbridge, in the County of Down, the said Reverend John Johnston, then and there being the placed and regular minister of the congregation of Protestant Dissenters, commonly called Presbyterians, at Tullylish, near to Banbridge, aforesaid, and that the said prisoner, and the said Hester Graham, then and there entered into a contract of present marriage, in presence of the said Reverend John Johnston, and the said other persons, and that the said Reverend John Johnston, then and there performed a religious ceremony of marriage between the said prisoner and Hester Graham, according to the usual form of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and that after the said contract and ceremony, the prisoner and said Hester, for two years cohabited and lived together as man and wife, the said Hester being, after the period of said ceremony, known by the name of Milles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.