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Deeds in favour of a Wife or Child, whether presumed in satisfaction of their legal Claims.
Creditors of Mitchell v. Warden
Date: 9 February 1742 Case No. No 135.
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A wife, by her contract of marriage, being entitled to a certain sum, her husband purchased an old house, and took a disposition to himself and wife, and the longest liver, in conjunct-fee and liferent. Thereafter he built a new house in the place of the old one. After his death, in a question between his creditors and his relict, she was found entitled to the rent of the new house, to the extent of her provision in the contract of marriage.