Mrs Pringle and Robert Andrews and Mark Pringle -v- John Pringle of Crichton; HL 29 Jan 1767

References: [1767] UKHL 2_Paton_130
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Ratio Deathbed – Faculty to Burden – Testament.- A party disponed his whole estate to his heir-at-law, under a reserved power or faculty to burden at any time during his life, with provisions to younger children. By a codicil bearing no date, but executed ten months before his death, he altered this disposition so as to diminish the fund for the heir; and granted also an heritable bond of provision for £1000, in terms of his reserved power to burden, nine days before his death: Held that these deeds were reducible on the head of deathbed; but reversed in the House of Lords.
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