[1681] Mor 6095
Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION X. Deeds betwixt Husband and Wife during marriage.
Subject_3 SECT. I. Pure Donation how far Revocable. Donation after Proclamation of Banns.
Date: Agnes Johnston
v.
Robert Melvin
1 December 1681
Case No.No 305.
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Found that a husband's contracting of debt, and exhausting his estate, is a tacit revocation of an anterior gratuitous provision made to his wife stante matrimonio, which otherwise would be valid after his death.
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