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[1753] 2 Elchies 262      

Subject_1 HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Shearer
v.
Sommervell

Date: 5 December 1753
Case No. No. 38.

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A husband and wife having executed two mutual dispositions, settling their whole effects on the longest liver, which the wife, by a private deed, concealed from the husband, revoked, and thereafter the husband ratified his former disposition and died;—it was found, 1st, That these two dispositions were onerous and irrevokable; 2dly, That the wife was not excluded by her revocation from the benefit of the disposition in her favours.

See No. 1. voce Horning.

See Witness.

See Notes.

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