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George Heriot v Mr Henry Blyth. [1681] Mor 8925 (00 November 1681)
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Minor's privileges. - Oath. - Process at a minor's instance to sell land for payment of his debt. - Privilegiatus contra privilegiatum. - How far liable for goods and money furnished to him. - And for money borrowed by his tutor. - May chuse the place of his residence. - Entitled to examine the state of his affairs. - Can a minor pupil contract marriage? - Can a minor be a tutor? - An arbiter? - or a Commissioner of Supply?
George Heriot v. Mr Henry Blyth
1681.
November. Case No. No 33.
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A curator having, in obedience to a letter sent from his minor abroad, furnished the minor's younger brother with 300 merks, the Lords sustained the article of payment in the curator's discharge, though quarrelled upon minority and lesion, in regard it was res minima, and done to a brother who was indigent, and had but 400 merks of stock.
