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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION reported by SIR ROBERT SPOTISWOODE OF PENTLAND.
Subject_2 Such of the following Decision as are of a Date prior to about the year 1620, must have been taken by Spotiswoode from some of the more early Reporters. The Cases which immediately follow have no Date affixed to them by Spotiswoode.
Date: George Heriot
v.
Walter Heriot and Jean Law
21 July 1636 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Mr George Heriot, as heir to his brother Walter Heriot, fiar of Romorny, pursued his father Walter Heriot elder of Romorny, and Jean Law his brother's relict, liferenters of the whole lands to which he was to succeed, for a modification whereupon to live. The Lords would not sustain the summons against his brother's relict; because his father, who was liferenter of the one half, was alive, who was bound by the law of nature to entertain him, and not his sister-in-law, who had her liferent of the other half for an onerous cause, in recompense of her debt. As for the father, the pursuer insisted not much against him.
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