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[1681] Mor 6095      
Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION X.

Deeds betwixt Husband and Wife during marriage.
Subject_3 SECT. I.

Pure Donation how far Revocable. Donation after Proclamation of Banns.

Agnes Johnston
 v.
Robert Melvin

Date: 1 December 1681
Case No. No 305.

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Found that a husband's contracting of debt, and exhausting his estate, is a tacit revocation of an anterior gratuitous provision made to his wife stante matrimonio, which otherwise would be valid after his death.

 Harcarse, (Stante Matrimonio.) No 867. p. 246.

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