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Subject_1 MUTUAL CONTRACT.
Date: Jack
v.
Hood
6 November 1740
Case No.No. 17.
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A Father became bound in his son's contract of marriage to pay his son a sum of money, and the wife to pay him her tocher, and the son bound to employ a certain sum for the uses therein mentioned, after which the father died, and after him the son within year and day of the marriage and without making up titles to his father's means;— but he made over his father's obligement for the 2000 merks to his wife. The Lords found that the dissolution of the marriage within year and day voided the contract not only as to the two spouses; but likewise as to the father's obligement as to the son, and found the son's assignation to his wife ineffectual, 6th November 1739. But this altered;—quod vide, with the prints and observations on them (See Notes.) (See Dict. No. 383. p. 6175.)
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