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[1712] 4 Brn 896      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Subject_2 I sat in the Outer-House this week.

Charles Jack
v.
Edward Laing

Date: 29 February 1712

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Charles Jack against Edward Laing, skipper in Leith, his son-in-law; who pursuing for his tocher, Charles alleged,—It was destined to his daughter in liferent, and the heirs of the marriage in fee.

Answered,—My wife consents to the uplifting; and my bairns are only heirs of provision, and I am fiar of the sum.

And the Lords having found he might uplift it, Charles protested; though his daughter had taken herself to her husband's security.

Vol. II. Page 734.

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