Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 WINTER SESSION. - Anni 1973.
Viscountess of Oxenfuird v. her Son
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Where a mother aliments her children, it falls to be controverted utrum impensas istas animo repetendi fecit, an animo donandi, ex pietate datas fuisse præsumendum est. Bernardus Schotanus, in examine juridico, p. 124, answers, with five distinctions; 1mo, Vel est protestata se nolle eos impensas donare, vel non est protestata. 2do, Vel super iis impensis rationes confecit, vel non. 3tio, Vel bona liberorum administravit, sicque eorum pecunias redit usque possederat, vel non. (See 3d January, 1679, Daes and Lindsay.) 4to, Mater vel est locuples, vel pauper. 5to, Impensæ factæ vel sunt magnæ, vel tantum parvi momenti. To which I add, 6to, Liberi vel sunt infantes, vel infantiæ proximi, with whom she could make no paction; vel sunt puberes, seu pubertati proximi. 7mo, The children either had means of their own aliunde, whereupon they might be sustained, or not.—See Guthrie and M'Karstan's case in 1672, No. 314, supra.
