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In an action pursued for a debt of 100 merks, against one Laing, at the instance of Cousland, executrix to umquhile Christian Cousland, the Lords found, That an obligation, purporting payment to be made to the first person therein nominated, and failing of him by decease, to the second person, if the first person survive till the day of payment be past, and decease thereafter, the sum contained in the bond will not pertain to the second person nominated in it.