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Melvill v Dumbar. [1566] Mor 5993 (12 February 1566)
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[1566] Mor 5993
A married woman's deeds in what cases effectual against herself, the husband consenting or not consenting.
Subject_3 SECT. VIII.
Effect of alienation by a Wife of her own Property, with her Husband's consent.
Melvill v. Dumbar
Date: 12 February 1566 Case No. No 195.
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Helen Melvill made a renunciation of a tenement in Kinghorn in favours of her son David Dumbar, without consent of her husband, who was then absent. The husband afterwards being come home, ratified the renunciation. Yet the Lords found it null from the beginning, and that the husband's ratification supervenient could not make it valid, unless the wife had made a new renunciation with her husband's consent.
Spotiswood, (Husband and Wife.) p. 155.
*** See Maitland's report of this case, No 206. p. 6001.
