Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 TAILZIE.
Subject_2 SECT. V.

Contravention.

Houston
v.
Nicholson

Date: 28 January 1756
Case No. No. 115.

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The entail of the estate of Carnock having a clause, enabling the heirs of entail, males or females, to provide their husbands and wives in life-rents to the extent of a third of the rents; this clause was found sufficient to enable the first institute, jointly with her son, the next apparent heir, to settle, in his contract of marriage, a jointure extending to a third, although the said apparent heir, after the death of his mother, never completed his titles to the estate.

Fol. Dic. v. 4. p. 341.

*** This case is No. 68. p. 2338. voce Clause.