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[1626] Mor 5986      

Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION V.

A married woman's deeds in what cases effectual against herself, the husband consenting or not consenting.
Subject_3 SECT. VII.

Obligations by Wives relative to their own Property.

Greenlaw
v.
Galloway

Date: 24 March 1626
Case No. No 190.

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Bond of borrowed money by a husband and wife, containing obligation upon the wife to pay annualrent out of her lands, but no formal obligation to infeft the creditor in her lands, found null quoad the wife: For though a woman may sell or burden her proper lands, with her husband's consent, it must be done debito modo.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 400. Durie.

*** See this case No 162. p. 5957.

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