[1625] Mor 9767
Subject_1 PASSIVE TITLE.
Subject_2 DIVISION II. Lucrative Successor post contractum debitum.
Subject_3 SECT. I. The disposition must flow from the father. - The disponee must be apparent heir in the subject. - Effect of the disponee dying before his father. - Disposition in trust for behoof of the apparent heir. - What must be the nature of the subject disponed to infer the passive title? - Acceptance of the disposition sufficient. - Bonds disponed to the heir will be presumed to have been heritable, in order to infer the passive title.
Date: William Gray
v.
William -
13 July 1625
Case No.No 103.
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The Lords found, That an universal successor post contractum debitum is obliged in solidum for the debts contracted before, and may not renounce; the Lords disponed to him to liberate himself.
Found the contrary, Mr David Curtie against John Weems, No 120. p. 9790.
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