HL Vis et metus. –
A disposition is granted by a woman to her heir at law, reserving her own life-rent, and the courtesy of a future husband, and declaring that it should not affect the heirs of her own body, and is followed by a more formal disposition a few days afterwards, on which infeftment followed: the brings an action for reduction on the ground, that being under arrest at London at the suit of a creditor, her heir had refused to bail her, unless she executed the deed first mentioned, and the bailiff threatening to carry her to Newgate, she gave her consent, and executed the deed as soon as bail was granted, and before the left the spunging-house: The Court reduces the deed and all that followed thereon; but the judgment is reversed.
[1721] UKHL Robertson – 387
Bailii
Scotland
Updated: 05 January 2022; Ref: scu.553672