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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN NISBET OF DIRLETON.
Date: Dame Marion Lesly
v.
Sir John Fletcher
5 July 1676 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Sir John Fletcher, being obliged by contract of marriage, to provide Dame Marion Lesly, his wife of a second marriage, to the liferent of a sum of £10,000, did thereafter infeft her in the lands of Gilchristoun, being of more value and of a greater rent: whereupon she having obtained a decreet against the tenants, the Lords found her right, being granted stante matrimonio, and thereafter revoked, null; in so far as it exceeded the provision in her contract of marriage: and sustained her decreet only effeiring thereto: and ordained her to be liable for the superplus, until the said sum of £10,000 should be employed for her liferent, conform to her contract of marriage.
Forret, Reporter. Mr Thomas Hay, Clerk. Page 181.
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