What subjects fall sub communione bonorum et debitorum.
Subject_3 SECT. VI.
Moveables accruing to the Wife during Marriage.
Lawson v. Bannatyne
Date: 8 January 1614 Case No. No 35.
A legacy left to a married woman falls to her husband.
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In an action betwixt Elizabeth Lawson, daughter to Margaret Brown, Lady Humbie, and dame Elizabeth Bannatyne, Lady Humbie and Ormiston, the Lords found, that the husband of the said daughter might discharge the legacy left to her in her mother's testament, after her decease, quia legatum transit in hæredes mero jure, and he is dominus omnium bonorum.
