Habit And Repute
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Habit and repute. By the law of Scotland marriage may be established by habit and repute where the parties cohabit and are at the same time held and reputed as man and wife, Bell's Law Dict.; see Dysart Peerage Case, (1881) 6 App Cas 489.
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