Personal and real – Discharge – A widow being infeft for her jointure in certain lands, agreed with the son to accept a restricted sum out of other lands, which being afterwards sequestrated by his creditors, she brought an action against the purchaser and tenants of the first estate for her jointure and bygones;-the claim was sustained.
The purchaser having acquired right to a wadset of the lands, in consideration of which he had reserved a part of the price,-found that the wadset, though prior in date, did not stand in the way of the claim.
[1736] UKHL 1 – Paton – 176, (1736) 1 Paton 176
Bailii
Scotland
Land
Updated: 06 January 2022; Ref: scu.554678
