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Houston v Nicholson. [1756] Mor 15558 (28 January 1756)
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[1756] Mor 15558
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The entail of the estate of Carnock having a clause, enabling the heirs of entail, males or females, to provide their husbands and wives in life-rents to the extent of a third of the rents; this clause was found sufficient to enable the first institute, jointly with her son, the next apparent heir, to settle, in his contract of marriage, a jointure extending to a third, although the said apparent heir, after the death of his mother, never completed his titles to the estate.
