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[1766] 5 Brn 923      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, collected by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.

William Baillie
v.
Mrs Chatto

Date: 17 June 1766

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[Fac. Coll. IV. No. 39.]

In this case the Lords found that an estate being devised to A and his heirs; whom failing, to B and his heirs, and assignees; whom failing, to the donor’s heirs whatsoever;—that by A’s heirs were meant only the heirs of his body, and therefore, these having failed, they gave the estate to B., dissent. tantum Barjarg.

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