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[1738] 2 Elchies 23
Subject_1 ALIMENT.
Date: Swinton of Strathore
v.
Mrs Swinton
8 December 1738
Case No.No. 7.
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One having sold an office, and taken a bond for a yearly annuity by way of aliment for it, and not to be arrestable; a creditor arrested it, and the Lords found it not arrestable, because the profits of the office sold were not arrestable, and the annuity was but a moderate aliment. But had it exceeded a moderate aliment, they thought the surplus would have been arrestable.
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