An usual and interesting will case has been decided this week in the Edinburgh Court of Sessions, Which turned upon whether a man's marriage to his illegitimate great-niece were legal If it were, two women inherited £17,000 left by this man's son. But if not, then this son was illegitimate, and the Crown would get the money. As the Crown hich is not the King but "a lot of wicked old men sitting round a table" in Whitehall—gets much more than it ought to have, one is relieved to see that the marriage with the illegitimate great-niece was declared legal and the two ladies get the money.
I don't know how the tables of affinity run in Scotland but they are fairly extensive in England. The general principle seems to be that One must not marry out of one's own plane in the family (This does not apply in cousinships) For example a woman may not marry
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