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[1745] 1 Elchies 348
Subject_1 PRESUMPTION.
John Weir
v.
William Steel
1745 ,Feb. 17 .
Case No.No. 17.
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The Lords found the dispositions not revoked by the contract of marriage; but they thought proper first to allow a proof by parole evidence of the defender William Weir's expressions, to shew that he did not mean to revoke the dispositions, which to me appeared extremely new, to admit parole evidence to determine the succession of land estates.—19th December 1744.
This case is mentioned 19th December. This day the Lords without any new debate from the Bar or on the Bench, found the former settlements not altered by the contract of marriage, upon advising the proof. I confess the whole procedure appeared to me odd.
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