AN INTERESTING LAW CASE.
A QUESTION OF LEGITIMACY
United Piiebb Association— Copyuioht MELBOURNE, Dec. 8.
An action brought at the sessions at Edinburgh by Alexander Wentworth MacDonald Bosville, ‘of Bleat,seeking r a decision . that his ■grandfather, born on September 12th, 1800, ‘ was legitimate per . subsequent matrimonium, has been dismissed as far as the relationship is concerned, but the parties have been allowed a proof on the question of legitimacy. According to the statement of claim, the claimant’s great grandfather eloped ,with Miss Lacoast,. the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Gloucester, and married her at the British Embassy in Paris. A son and daughter were horn. Subsequently Lady Mac'Donald insisted on being regularly married in England. A'second son was af'terwards horn, and the question arose as to whether the second marriage deprived the two elder children of the advantage of being horn in wedlock; Bosville made no claim to the Scotch estates of the family, or to the Irish peerage’; only to have the legitimacy -of his grandfather established.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2680, 9 December 1909, Page 5
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169AN INTERESTING LAW CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2680, 9 December 1909, Page 5
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