Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE. Subject_2 DIVISION III.
Mutual Duties betwixt Husband and Wife.
Subject_3 SECT. I.
Husband bound to aliment and provide for his Wife.
Countess of Caithness v. The Earl
Date: 25 July 1744 Case No. No 100.
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The Countess of Caithness pursued the Earl her husband for an aliment. Answered by the Earl, That if she would return to her family he was willing to aliment her; but as there was no separation a mensa et thoro, she could not claim a separate aliment. The Lords found the claim incompetent in hoc statu. See Appendix,
