Subject_1 ALIMENT. Subject_2 ALIMENT due ex debito naturali.
William Dick v. Sir Andrew Dick
Date: 13 January 1666 Case No. No 40.
A father, tho' indigent, and with a large family, bound to maintain his son who had not ability to support himself.
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William Dick pursues Sir Andrew Dick, his father, for a modification of his aliment, whereupon the question was, Whether Sir Andrew Dick himself being indigent, and having a great family of small children, and the pursuer having been educated, a prentice, whether the pursuer should have a modification.
The Lords considering the great portion the pursuer's mother brought; and that he was a person of no ability to aliment himself by his industry; decerned Sir Andrew to receive him in his house, and to entertain him in meat and cloath as he did the rest, or else two hundred merks, at Sir Andrew's option.
