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[1728] Mor 6108      

Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION X.

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

Whether deeds betwixt Husband and Wife, where there are clauses favour of third parties are revocable, although gratuitous.

Sanders
v.
Dunlop

Date: 1 February 1728
Case No. No 321.

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A man having disponed his moveables to a third party, reserving his liferent, with a power and faculty to his wife to alter, &c. this disposition, though nominally in favour of the third party, yet truly in favour of the wife, found revocable by him even after the wife's death, being no better than a cover et fraus facta legi; and here the wife's faculty to alter was a virtual fee, and the case the same as if the disposition had been directly in favour of the wife, with a substitution to the third party, in which the fee, established in the wife, being ever subject to revocation, there could be no pretence of a jus quæsitum tertio by her death. See Appendix.

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

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