Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 ALIMENT.
Subject_2 ALIMENT due ex debito naturali.

Don of Attenburn
v.
Don

Date: 13 January 1697
Case No. No 58.

Younger children allowed aliment from their brother; the boys till 14, the girls till 12.

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The younger children of Mr Patrick Don of Attenburn, pursue their elder brother for an aliment, on this ground, That their father had left them nothing by any bond of provision; and the estate being opulent, about 9000 merks of yearly rent, it was just they should be alimented; and craved two periods to be fixed; one to 14, and the other from that age to 21; for the first, 600 merks per annum, was craved to be modified for each of them; and after 14, 800 merks.——The Lords remembered, that in the case of Jacobina Inglis, daughter to Crammond, in 1691,* the Lords would go no farther than her age of 12; therefore they allowed 600 merks yearly to each of them; the boys till 14, and the girls till 12.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 33. Fount. v. 1. p. 754.

* General List of Names.