Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 CONQUEST.
Subject_2 SECT. I.

Clauses of Conquest, how far extended.

Mercer
v.
Mercer

1730. July.
Case No. No 9.

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In a contract of marriage, there is a provision of conquest in favours of the bairns of the marriage, in the common stile, of all that the husband should conquest or acquire during the marriage. During the standing of the marriage, the husband got left him, as a pure donation, by way of legacy, the sum of 12,000 merks; and the question thereupon occurred, whether this was comprehended under the above clause of conquest? The Lords found it was not. See Appendix.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 197.