Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE. Subject_2 DIVISION II.
Extent of the Husband's liability for the Wife's debts contracted before Marriage.
Subject_3 SECT. I.
Personal debts. - Annualrent of heritable debts. - Liable for heritable debts in qnantum lucratus.
Heriot v. Watson
1613. Case No. No 61.
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In a removing pursued by Helen Heriot, and Sir John Arnot her spouse, against Joan Watson, relict of umquhile William Small, the Lords found, that the promise made by the said Helen, tempore viduitatis, might not be proved by her oath in prejudice of her husband.
The like found between the L. of Clardingston and the L. of Hordingston, and between the E. of Glencairn and Fenton.
