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[1683] Mor 11427      
Subject_1 PRESUMPTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION III.

Donatio non præsumitur.
Subject_3 SECT. I.

Aliment bestowed without Paction, when Paction might have been.

Alcorn
 v.
Charteris

1683. January.
Case No. No 97.

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The Lords found, That a mother might crave allowance for alimenting, without paction, her daughter, after pupilarity, to whom she was then debtor; because debitor non præsumitur donare.

 Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 141. Harcarse, (Aliment.) No 19. p. 5.

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