[1579] Mor 1813
Subject_1 BREVI MANU.
Date: Lady Giffane
v.
L Caldwallis.
21 January 1579
Case No.No 1.
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Found, that a pupil, though above seven years old, cannot be taken brevi manu by the tutor from the mother, without authority of a judge; but must be restored again, although the tutor's intromission was by the father's express orders on death-bed.
***See This case voce Tutor and Pupil.
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