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[1742] 2 Elchies 325
Subject_1 LEGACY.
Date: Whiteford
v.
Ayton
3 November 1742
Case No.No. 12.
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Legacy or donation mortis causa by a person dying (though he lived near a year after) to his landlord in whose house he died, of his gold watch and chain, by delivering them to him and his wearing them in the defunct's life, not allowed to be proven by witnesses to take away a former donation mortis causa of it in writing by a missive letter. (See Dict. No. 25. p. 8072.)
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