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Janet auchinlech v James stewart. [1540] Mor 339 (18 December 1540)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1540/Mor0100339-015.html Cite as:
[1540] Mor 339
Subject_1 ADULTERY. Subject_2 *** Compare the following with Nos 9. and 11.
Janet auchinlech v. James stewart
Date: 18 December 1540 Case No. No 15.
Ought the tocher to be restored?
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Quhen ony man and his wife are simpliciter partit and divorcit be the authority of the Judge Ordinar, for adulterie, or ony other trespass committed be the man, the hail tocher-gude, and all that was ressavit be the man fra the woman, by vertue of the matrimonie contractit betwix thame, aucht to be restorit to the woman, with the prosseits thairof, ester the giving of the sentence of divorce betwix thame.
