Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 TENOR.

Dick of Braid
v.
Gorgiemiln

1682. December.
Case No. No. 37.

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Dick of Grange having raised a proving of the tenor of a tack granted by Sir William Dick to his daughter-in-law and heirs, until the payment of a sum of £.4000, and for the aliment of her children; these being extraordinary clauses, all that was adduced in writ was a decree before the Sheriff, wherein a tack to the Lady and her heirs was related; which adminicle the Lords sustained. But the difficulty being, how that decree would adminiculate the extraordinary clauses of the tack, and yet the mention of heirs in the decree made the tack appear to be more than a life-rent;

The parties settled before interlocutor.

Harcarse, No. 815. p. 227.