Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 MINOR.
Subject_2 SECT. XII.

Whether recourse against curators bars reduction. - Whether reduction takes effect ab initio or only from decree.

Houston
v.
Maxwell

Date: 25 January 1631
Case No. No 184.

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A girl 14 years of age at most, having sold her land without the authority of a Judge, the disposition was reduced from the beginning, and not from the time of litiscontestation, only as the defender insisted; but here the disposition was understood to be ipso jure null.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 586. Durie. Auchinleck.

*** This case is No 109. p. 8986.