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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by ROBERT MACGILL, LORD FOORD.
Date: The Poor Woman Martine
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27 December 1649 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The poor woman Martine, in the pursuit of reduction, propter matrimonium non secutum, of a disposition made, intuitu matrimonii, is assoilyied from any charges alleged made by the bastard, who was to marry her, and whose gift of bastardy, the defender, Home, had taken; and she preferred to prove, that she put him in possession of a going mill and houses noways ruinous, so that the maills and duties might supply all, being intromitted with by him. Neither can the infeftment be thought profitably purchased from the house of Coldinghame, since the king was become superior.
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