[1728] Mor 13004
Subject_1 PROVISION to HEIRS and CHILDREN.
Subject_2 SECT. XIV. Father's Power of distributing among his Children, or the Heirs of a Marriage, the Subjects provided to them.
Date: Dowie
v.
Dowie
9 January 1728
Case No.No 126.
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In a provision of sums, lands, and conquest, to children, in a contract of marriage, the Lords found, That the father had a power of making an unequal division of the sums, lands, and conquest among the children of the marriage, but that he could not totally exclude any of them, without a cause, from a share thereof.
*** This case is engrossed in a case Henderson against Henderson, 1728 February, No 33. p. 8199. voce Legitim.
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