A married woman's deeds in what cases effectual against herself, the husband consenting or not consenting.
Subject_3 SECT. X.
Husband's Consent, how interponed. Natural or Legal Incapacity in the Husband.
Dunbar v. Melville
Date: 12 February 1566 Case No. No 206.
A wife renounced a tenement in her husband's absence, in favour of her son, which was after wards ratified by the husband. Found, that such ratification was not sufficient to validate a deed ipso jure null; and that therefore a new renunciation, with the husband's consent, was necessary.
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In an action of removing, intented by David Dunbar against Helen Meville, his mother, for removing her from a waste tenement, it was excepted by the said Helen, That she was infeft in liferent in the said tenement; whereto it was answered, That she had renounced her liferent of the same in favour of the pursuer her son, the time of his contract of marriage.—It was replied, That the time of the renunciation she was clad with a husband, who then was absent, and consented not thereto in the mean time.—It was answered by the pursuer, That her said husband was now deceased; and also before his death he ratified the said renunciation.—It was answered by the defender, That the renunciation being null from the beginning, as being done by a woman without consent of her husband, could not be valid by that ratification.——The Lords found the said renunciation was null from the beginning, and the ratification of the husband coming thereafter without her consent again of new, could not make the same sufficient.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 402. Maitland, MS. p. 209.
*** See Spottiswood's report of this case, No 195. p. 5993.
