The Lords have finally decided that the title and estates
of Breadalbane belong to Colonel Campbell of Glenfalloch, the pre- sent possessor. The single point of issue was the legality of his grandmother's marriage. His grandfather took her away from her husband, C. Ludlow, an apothecary, and lived with her, with- out at any time performing any ceremony. He called her, how- ever, his wife, which had she been single would have made her so, and the child was born after C. Ludlow's death. Did a connec- tion commencing in adultery become a marriage by mere lapse of time? The Lords held that it did, Mr. Campbell having in fact married C. Ludlow's widow by a process known to Scotch law. What a number of fools there must be in the MAW Kingdom, that we cannot get a general law for the registration of marriage!
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