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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 11 February 1686
Ramsay v. Bill
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The case of Ramsay and Bill being reported by Castlehill, the Lords found, That the disposition in favours of the defender, was of all the Lady Granton's goods, except what was legated, and that the relation to an inventary was not taxative but demonstrative; and therefore sustained the disposition, and assoilyied from Bill's reduction: in regard, by the other disposition, she left a legacy to her brother Henry Bill, and declared if he did not accept of it in full of all, then it was to accresce to Major Ramsay; by which it was clear she intended her brother no more but that legacy. And that her disponing to Major Ramsay all her moveables, conform to an inventary, does not restrict it to thegoods allenarly contained in that inventary, and no more, is evident; no more than this legacy, omnia mea bona et supellectilia domus meæ; do, lego, is taxative; for the words domus meæ; were found by the Senate of Naples not to restrict. See Matthæus de Afflict, decis. 106. Quær, if this disposition, mentioning only goods and gear, should extend to sums of money; which some think negative.
