Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION. 1685 and 1686.
Martha Temple, Ruthven's Relict, v. Lord Forrester
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1685.December 1.—There is a letter from his Majesty to the Lords of Session, in favours of Martha Temple, relict of Edward Ruthven, bearing, that she had a jointure provided to her out of the lands of Corstorphine; and seeing she is a stranger, that the Lords may summarily hear and discuss her cause. Her opponent was Torwoodhead, Lord Saline's son-in-law. Vide 25th February 1686.
Vol. I. Page 380.
1686. February 25. —The case of Martha Temple, relict of Edward Ruthven, mentioned 1st December 1685, claiming her jointure against Lord Forrester and the creditors, and particularly my Lord Redford, is debated; and it was contended, that the apprisings upon that estate, in the person of Hugh Wallace, were satisfied and retired, and lying in the charter-chest, and assignations taken thereto since; and that Redford had renounced by a contract, and prorogated the legal reversion of his father-in-law John Boid's comprising on that land; and the communication was only a personal obligement, and could not exclude her, who was a singular successor.
