Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 DEATH-BED.
Subject_2 SECT. VII.

Against what Deeds the Law of Death-bed Strikes.

Chrystisons
v.
Ker

1733. December.
Case No. No 49.

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A tack for three nineteen years of the granter's whole estate done on death-bed, though alleged to be for an adequate rent, was reduced; it being pleaded, That though a tack for a moderate endurance, granted upon death-bed, may subsist, as being an act of ordinary administration, a tack for three nineteen years is a species of alienation which cannot be granted upon death-bed. See Appendix.—Tack.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 115.