Manfredi Estate

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• plaintiff sought to establish legitimacy of her birth through claim of her parents’ common law marriage in order to share in putative uncle’s estate
• plaintiff sought to establish legitimacy of her birth through claim of her parents' common law marriage in order to share in putative uncle's estate
• \There [used to be] two kinds of marriage: (1) ceremonial; and (2) common law.\
• “When the lips of a man are sealed by death, and he leaves no satisfactory evidence as to the existence of such [marriage] contract, courts will be very slow to establish it in derogation of the undoubted rights of those who follow him.”
• reputation must be broad and general, not partial and divided

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