Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 WINTER SESSION. - Anni 1973.
Anent Liferents
1676.
July.
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Quæritur,—At how much the liferent of one can be valued, who is in actual service against an enemy, or is engaged either in the defending or storming of a town. Sure it cannot be estimated at much; for qui utitur periculis peribit in illis, says the wise man, in Ecclesiasticus, cap. 3, verse 27; see Craig, Feud. pag. 331, where you have four or five sundry instances of valuing things.
A woman's liferent who is bearing children is reputed less valuable than hers who is not in that hazard, though she be much older. Five, six, or seven years purchase are the ordinary steps and degrees by custom condescended upon, for buying liferents.
