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Excerpt from The Revised Reports, 1846-1848, Vol. 75: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, From the Year 1785, as Are Still of Practical Utility; 1 De Gex and Smale; 11 Queen's Bench; 5 Common Bench; 4 Dowling and Lowndes
In Doe d. Gains v. Rouse, p. 771, we see that wife may by force of an otherwise apt description of the person be read as meaning a reputed or de facto wife. Difficulties were felt much later about extending a like benevolent con struction to children. The learned reader who remembers, or has noted in the books, on what judges they most weighed, may be apt to think that the reasons for them were not wholly judicial.
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