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Dowie v Dowie. [1728] Mor 13004 (9 January 1728)
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[1728] Mor 13004
Subject_1 PROVISION to HEIRS and CHILDREN. Subject_2 SECT. XIV.
Father's Power of distributing among his Children, or the Heirs of a Marriage, the Subjects provided to them.
Dowie v. Dowie
Date: 9 January 1728 Case No. No 126.
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In a provision of sums, lands, and conquest, to children, in a contract of marriage, the Lords found, That the father had a power of making an unequal division of the sums, lands, and conquest among the children of the marriage, but that he could not totally exclude any of them, without a cause, from a share thereof.
Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 289. Rem. Dec.
*** This case is engrossed in a case Henderson against Henderson, 1728 February, No 33. p. 8199. voce Legitim.
