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Creditors of Mouswell v The Children. [1683] Mor 8253 (#date March 1683)
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[1683] Mor 8253
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Found, That sylva cædua, or hewing woods, were not the property of a father who had disponed the fee of his lands to his son, reserving his liferent, and that he, the father, had only liberty to cut so much as was needful for the repairing of the houses, and could not dispose upon, or sell any part, unless the wood was used formerly to be cut in yearly haggs.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 549. Harcarse, (Liferents.) No. 670. p. 190.
