References: [1756] UKHL 2 – Paton – 8
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Ratio: An antenuptial contract of marriage, in the shape of an entail, contained a reserved faculty and power to grant provisions to younger children on deathbed, and to affect the estate therewith. Held, reversing the judgment of the Court of Session, that bonds of provision granted on deathbed were not reducible on deathbed, they having been executed in exercise of the reserved faculty.
Jurisdiction: Scotland
Last Update: 15 March 2020
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