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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by ALEXANDER TAIT, CLERK OF SESSION, one of the reporters for the faculty.
Subject_2 BILL.
Date: Gibson
v.
Gibson
3 August 1776 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
This day, 17th July 1776, in a cause, Gibson against Gibson, the Lords held it to be a fixed point in law, that a donation could not be constituted by a bill. See Home, No. 30, and 111 New. Coll. No. 20. The case here was of a father, unlimited in his powers, granting bills to his younger children. The Lords held, that, so far as the onerosity of these could be instructed, either by services or value, the bills were good; but so far as gratuitous, or by way of provision, they found they were not good: and this day, 3d August 1776, refused a reclaiming petition, without answers; and adhered.
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