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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR ROGER HOG OF HARCARSE.
Date: Lady Kirkland
v.
Thomas Burklae
2 November 1682 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Found that the expenses of funerals, mournings, entertainment of the family to the first term after the defunct's death, the relict's lying in, and baptism of a posthume child, are all privileged debts; for defraying whereof the relict had retention of the executry goods, pro tanto: albeit the defunct was maxime obæratus and the relict had a considerable jointure; and the creditors contended, that, in respect of the husband's condition and burdens, nothing ought to have been privileged but funeral expenses; at least that the other debts, if allowed to be due, should have no preference.
Page 122, No. 445.
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