Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL
Subject_2 WINTER SESSION. - Anni 1973.

Anent Alternative Obligements

1676. July.

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In alternative obllgatlonibus electio est debitoris; sed si semel optaverit, consumitur optio, nec licet recurrere. Vide Tit. D. de Optione Legata; et Schotanum, in Examine Juridico, de Concursu et Cumidatione Actionum, pag. 187 et seq.; and Spotswood's Practiques, in Principio, (18th January, 1628, Halkerton;) yet if it be debitum annuum that has cursum futuri temporis, et ubi quolibet anno nascitur actio, it may seem probable the election binds only for that year, since the rest are not yet existent, nondum nata. Vide Titulos D. de Annuls Legatis, Quando dies ususfructus cedat, et de usucapionibus; upon which title Harprecht debates, Utrum annuls reditibis præscribl possit cum quotannis nascantur. For the Countess Dowager of Erroll's case against the Earl of Erroll, anent an alternative obligement in her contract matrimonial, providing her to 70 chalders of victual, or 100 merks for each chalder; vide this determined, infra, 17th January, 1677, No. 533. Vide E. Brouchorstium, ad Legem, 75. D. de Regulis Juris.

Advocates” MS. No. 492, § 5, folio 25S.