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Graham v Rebecca Kay. [1740] Mor 441 (25 July 1740)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1740/Mor0100441-074.html Cite as:
[1740] Mor 441
Subject_1 ALIMENT. Subject_2 ALIMENT due ex debito naturali.
Graham v. Rebecca Kay
Date: 25 July 1740 Case No. No 74.
Aliment of a bastard child due till 14 years of age.
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An inferior judge having decerned L.4 Sterling of yearly aliment to be paid, by the father, to the mother of his bastard child, without limiting the endurance, a bill of suspension was, on that ground, presented; and as the question occurred upon the passing or refusing the bill, the Lords had some difficulty how to qualify the endurance; and, at last, fell upon this expedient, to refuse the bill, without prejudice to the suspender to apply again by suspension, how soon the child should arrive at the age of 14 years, and become able to aliment itself: Which implied that the aliment should continue no longer than the age of 14: And such was the opinion of the Court.
Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 24. Kilkerran, (Aliment.) p. 22.
