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Forbes v Badenoch. [1760] Mor 2278 (24 November 1760)
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[1760] Mor 2278
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A person bound himself, in his contract of marriage, to secure 6000 merks upon land, bond, or other sufficient security, and to take the rights in favour of himself and his wife, and the longest liver, in liferent, and to their heirs in fee. He purchased a small estate at the price of 6300 merks. The wife afterwards pursuing for deficiency of jointure, because the rent of the land did not equal the annualrent of 6000 merks,——The Lords found, that the obligation in the contract had been sufficiently implemented, and that the pursuer was not entitled to claim the difference.
