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[1751] Mor 3230      
Subject_1 DEATH-BED.
Subject_2 SECT. VII.

Against what Deeds the Law of Death-bed Strikes.

Crawfurd
 v.
Johnston and Others

1751. February.
Case No. No 52.

A father cannot on death-bed, vary a nomination of curators made in liege poustie.

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Found, That as a father cannot name curators to his children on death-bed, so neither can he on death-bed vary a nomination, which he had made in liege poustie, by a new nomination, only a part of those formerly named; though he might have thrown the former nomination into the fire.

 Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 171. Kilkerran, (Death-bed.) No 7. p. 154.

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