[1665] Mor 5871
Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION II. Extent of the Husband's liability for the Wife's debts contracted before Marriage.
Subject_3 SECT. III. The husband not liberated by the dissolution of the marriage if lucratus.
Date: Burnet
v.
Lepers
23 December 1665
Case No.No 83.
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If a husband get more with his wife than an ordinary and competent tocher, effeiring to his circumstances, he will be liable for his wife's debt, after dissolution of the marriage, in quantum lucratus est, and the lucrum will be considered to be the benefit he has gotten above an ordinary tocher.
*** See this case, No 78. p. 5863.
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