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[1662] Mor 6118      

Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION X.

Deeds betwixt Husband and Wife during marriage.
Subject_3 SECT. IV.

Mutual Contracts.

Children of Woolmet
v.
Douclas

Date: 20 November 1662
Case No. No 334.

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Though a mutual contract betwixt a husband and wife is not revocable, yet, if it be very unequal, and the excess considerable, it will be presumed to have been intended as a cover for a donation, and therefore revocable.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 410. Stair.

*** See this case, No 12. p. 1730.

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