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[1561] Mor 8178      
Subject_1 LEGITIM.
Subject_2 SECT. IV.

Forisfamiliation.

Sir William Hamilton
 v.
John Wallace of Craigie

Date: 23 February 1561
Case No. No 16.

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Gif ony man havand ane lauchful wife, and in like manner lauchful bairns gottin of his bodie, the quhilkis bairnis ar all forisfamiliat befoir his deceis, all his movabill gudis and geir pertenand to him the time of his deceis, sould be dividit equallie in twa partis, viz. the deidis part, and the wife's part; because the bairnis, beand forisfamiliat, sould have na part nor portioun thairof.

 Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 544. Balfour, (Testaments.) No 9. p. 218.

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