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Subject_1 TUTOR - CURATOR - PUPIL.
Graham
v.
The Earl of March
1735 ,Dec. 5 .
Case No.No. 3.
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The Lords were of opinion that the rule that a tutor cannot alienate without authority of a Judge extends to heritable debts as well as rights of property; but this being an alienation in favour of the debtor or reverser who had a right to compel him to receive his money, they found the authority of a Judge not necessary, and assoilzied from the reduction. The President doubted of this interlocutor. Lord Newhall thought a tutor had right to uplift heritable debts as well as personal. It was asked if this would extend to proper wadsets. But many of us doubted of that point, because a proper wadset is pactum de retrovendendo,—29th January.—5th December, The Lords adhered to the interlocutor marked 29th January last unanimously, at least nem. con.; and indeed it seems
implied in the act 1672 anent tutors and curators, sed vide Balfour, Title Redemption of Lands, Cap. 20.
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