BAILII is celebrating 24 years of free online access to the law! Would you
consider making a contribution?
No donation is too small. If every visitor before 31 December gives just £1, it
will have a significant impact on BAILII's ability to continue providing free
access to the law.
Thank you very much for your support!
In a declarator of a dead man's escheat, not only the wife and children must be called, but the heir, because of his heirship goods.
Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
A donatar taking declarator of the escheat of a defunct, will get no process against the heir and relict, if there were executors confirmed before the intenting of his cause, in case he have neither called the executors, nor the defunct's hail bairns, who might have been his executors. A horning and gift of escheat following thereupon will not be decerned null upon an exception in the declarator, that the defender offers him to prove that the debt was paid before the denunciation, because that must bide reduction. See Escheat.
