Life-rent Escheat – Aliment of the Fiar – An estate being settled by entail, upon a person in life-rent, and a certain series of heirs in fee, with the burden of an aliment to the first substitute: the life-renter forfeits his life-rent escheat for treason; and the Court of Session having, in a competition with the donator, granted an aliment to the fiar, their judgment is reversed.
[1723] UKHL Robertson – 449, (1723) Robertson 449
Bailii
Scotland
Updated: 31 July 2021; Ref: scu.553795