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[1753] 2 Elchies 262
Subject_1 HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Date: Shearer
v.
Sommervell
5 December 1753
Case No.No. 38.
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A husband and wife having executed two mutual dispositions, settling their whole effects on the longest liver, which the wife, by a private deed, concealed from the husband, revoked, and thereafter the husband ratified his former disposition and died;—it was found, 1st, That these two dispositions were onerous and irrevokable; 2dly, That the wife was not excluded by her revocation from the benefit of the disposition in her favours.
See No. 1. voce Horning.
See Witness.
See Notes.
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