Long v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““The acts of the parties support plaintiff’s claim of a. common-law marriage. She insured her life and made him, as her husband, beneficiary; he insured his life and made her, as his wife, beneficiary. As husband and wife they made formal adoption of a boy. She joined with him as his wife in executing a mortgage. He made application to the probate court as her husband to have her committed to an asylum. We are fully persuaded that an oral contract of marriage, per verba de praesenti, was made between the parties and consummated by cohabitation and amply corroborated by holding themselves out to the public as husband and -wife.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Kachula's Estate