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In a pursuit at the instance of a wife against her husband, concluding, That, in respect he had married her very young, without contract or advice of friends, and got 12,000 merks of portion with her, and had now deserted her, and was now dilapidating his fortune, he might be decerned to secure a liferent to her, and provisions to her children,
The Lords found, That the defender could not be so decerned; but that the pursuer must rest upon her legal provisions of terce and third.