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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: Isobell Wardlaw, Petitioner
22 November 1632 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Isobell Wardlaw, spouse to James Inglis, being provided by her husband, not by contract of marriage, but by a decreet-arbitral betwixt her husband and Westnisbett; by the which decreet Westnisbett was decerned to pay the said James Inglis and his said spouse, the longest liver of them two, and the heirs to be gotten betwixt them, which failing, the heirs and assignees of the said James, the sum of 300 merks: the said Isobell gave in a bill, making mention, that she and her said bairns, by decreet-arbitral, are provided to the said sum; nevertheless her said spouse had uplifted the half thereof, and had disponed at his pleasure: and the other half thereof being in the Earl of Linlithgow his hand, she desired that the same might be arrested at her instance, to the effect her husband might not defraud her and her bairns thereof, as he had done of the other half. The Lords refused to grant arrestment, but ordained James Inglis to answer to the bill.
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