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[1680] Mor 9679      

Subject_1 PASSIVE TITLE.
Subject_2 DIVISION I.

Behaviour as Heir.
Subject_3 SECT. V.

Husband's Intromission in name of his Wife.

Dingwall
v.
Irvine

Date: 15 January 1680
Case No. No 36.

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The Lords refused to sustain the husband's intromission to bind behaviour upon her (his wife) as heir to her father; yet women heirs may thus shun debt by marrying; only the husband will be liable as intromitter. Quaritur, If a confirmation ante metam litem will purge it, being of heirship.

Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 29. Fountainhall, MS.

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