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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, collected by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Date: William Baillie
v.
Mrs Chatto
17 June 1766 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[Fac. Coll. IV. No. 39.]
In this case the Lords found that an estate being devised to A and his heirs; whom failing, to B and his heirs, and assignees; whom failing, to the donor’s heirs whatsoever;—that by A’s heirs were meant only the heirs of his body, and therefore, these having failed, they gave the estate to B., dissent. tantum Barjarg.
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