[1713] Mor 5916
Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION III. Mutual Duties betwixt Husband and Wife.
Subject_3 SECT. V. Relict's Aliment till the term after her Husband's Death.
Date: The Creditors of Robert Scott of Harden,
v.
Jean Kerr, his Relict, Competing
15 July 1713
Case No.No 120.
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In a competition betwixt the Lady Harden and her deceased husband's creditors, The Lords found, that the extent of the Lady's jointure is not to be the rule of alimenting the defunct's family till the term after his death, but the quality of the person, and condition of the family left by him.
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