Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Rankine v. Smith
Date: 12 December 1694
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This was a reduction of a discharge of tutor-accounts, on this reason,—That it was granted by her in confinio minoritatis, being but some few months past twenty-one, and proceeded without count and reckoning made; and he obtained the husband's consent to the discharge, he being in æstro amoris, and the other offering to oppose the marriage if he did not.
The Lords repelled the reason of reduction; and found she might discharge for nothing, unless they could instruct threats or circumvention used; and on such pretences all tutors' discharges might be questioned.
