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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR PETER WEDDERBURN, LORD GOSFORD.
Date: Anna Blair and her Spouse
v.
Doctor Forbes
3 July 1669 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The said Anna, pursuing for mails and duties of her conjunct-fee lands, to which she was provided;—It was alleged for the Doctor, who was infeft upon a comprising led for his wife's portion, That the pursuer's seasine was null, not being registrate. It was replied, That it was given upon a contract of marriage, clad with many years' possession, and acknowledged by the defenders, in so far as, in a double poinding, they had taken a decreet with the burden of her liferent.
The Lords sustained the reply; albeit the defender was a singular successor, and founded his allegeance upon the Act of Parliament.
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