Subject_1 ALIMENT. Subject_2 Of the act 1491, cap. 25. anent alimenting of Heirs. Subject_3 Import of the Act:
It is ordained, that where any lands happen to fall in ward to the King, or any baron of the realm, spiritual or temporal, or lands given in conjunct fee or liferent, as well as to burgh as to land, that the sheriff of the shire or bailies shall take surety of the person or persons, that gets or has such wards, that they shall not waste or destroy their biggings, orchards, woods, stanks, parks, meadows, or dovecots, but that they hold them in such kind as they are in the time that they receive the same; they taking their reasonable sustentation, or using, in needful things, without destruction or wasting thereof. “And an reasonable living to be given to the sustentation of the air, after the quantitie of the heritage, gif the said air has na blanche ferme, nor feu ferme land, to susteine him on, alsweil of the ward lands, that fallis to our Soveraine Lordis hands, as onie uther barronne, spiritual or temporal.”
Scots Acts, v. 1. p. 158.
Simeon Ramsay v. Rigg
Date: 4 June 1687 Case No. No 13.
A mother decerned to aliment her son 18 years old, and an apprentice.
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Simeon Ramsay pursues his mother for an aliment out of her jointure, because he was a minor, (though the President said it imported not whether he was major or minor, if he could not live aliunde, and was not bred, by his parents, to a trade which could make him subsist) and she liferented all, and was married again. Alleged, He was bound prentice to a skipper, and was 18 years of age, and had run away, and she had only 600 merks by year.—The Lords modified to him L. 100 Scots yearly.
