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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: Mure
v.
Cunninghame
11 March 1628 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The sum of 200 merks being promitted in tocher to a woman, by her friends, in her contract of marriage, and the sum being pursued for, it was alleged, That the contract being subscribed but by one notary, did not oblige the party promitter of such a sum. The Lords repelled the exception, in respect it was contained in a contract of marriage; which the Lords are in use to sustain, albeit the same be subscribed but by one notary.
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