Forum competens – Jurisdiction – The Marchioness of Annandale, residing in England, being appointed executrix for behoof of her children, proves the late Marquis’s will in England; various personal creditors of the late Marquis, arrest in the tenants’ hands, a jointure payable to the executrix out of the Scots estates: the Court of Session having ordered her to purge the arrestments, before she drew her jointure: the judgment is reversed, and it is ordered that the arrestments be loosed without caution or consignation.
Citations:
[1724] UKHL Robertson – 467, (1724) Robertson 467
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Updated: 24 July 2022; Ref: scu.553899