Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Laurence Oliphant v. Mary Hepburn, and Oliphants, her Children
Date: 17 February 1693
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This was a reduction of an additional portion of two or three thousand merks, that Laurence Oliphant had given to the eldest son of the first marriage, on this reason, that he had got to the full what is provided by his mother's contract, viz. 5000 merks, and that the second contract provided all the conquest to the second children, and therefore he could not take it from them.
The Lords found these clauses of conquest did not impede rational deeds, nor cut off the paternal power of disposal when it was moderate; and they found this provision rational and moderate, and therefore sustained it.
