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[1686] Mor 6108      
Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION X.

Deeds betwixt Husband and Wife during marriage.
Subject_3 SECT. II.

Whether deeds betwixt Husband and Wife, where there are clauses favour of third parties are revocable, although gratuitous.

Somerville
 v.
Paton

Date: 2 February 1686
Case No. No 320.

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A donation by a wife to her husband's eldest son, though eadem persona cum patre, was not found revocable as a donation inter virum et uxorem.

 Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 410. Fountainhall.

*** See this case, No 193. p. 5990.

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