Fiar absolute and limited. – An estate being settled in a marriage contract upon the heirs male of the marriage; whom failing, upon the heirs male of the body of the husband by any other marriage; whom failing, upon the heirs female of the marriage; found that the heir male of the second marriage, who succeeded to the estate, might gratuitously dispose of it to the exclusion of the substitutes, the heirs female of the first marriage.
[1742] UKHL 1 – Paton – 334
Bailii
Scotland
Trusts
Updated: 20 January 2022; Ref: scu.556480
