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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by ROBERT MACGILL, LORD FOORD.
Date: Gray's Bairns
v.
Jean Kennedie
6 July 1649 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In the action at the instance of Gray his Bairns against Jean Kennedie, for a iegacy left to them by their uncle, Lieutenant Colonel Bell, of 500 merks, the pursuit was sustained, notwithstanding the exception upon the alternative, either 500 merks, or the superplus of 3000 merks, resting owing to the defunct by George Suitie, whereof nothing was resting; because, in this case, electio est legatarii, for fulfilling of the defunct his will; the bairns being poor, and his sister's sons.
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