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Subject_1 ALIMENT.
Creditors and Children of Mr Alexander Falconer, Competing
1736 .February 13 ,26 .
Case No.No. 3.
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One bound in his contract of marriage to pay a certain sum to the daughter of the marriage, if but one, at a certain age, and in the mean time to maintain, her in bed, board, schools, &c. according to her rank and quality; the father afterwards died bankrupt. The Lords found an obligation to aliment, though constituted by a contract of marriage, cannot compete with the onerous creditors of the father, he becoming bankrupt. Vide inter eosd. voce Ranking. Vide Lud. Grant against Creditors of Strachan, No. 14. (See Dict. No. 89. p. 454.)
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