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[1734] Mor 6159      

Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE.
Subject_2 DIVISION X.

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

Contract of Separation upon a sufficient cause.

Home
v.
Lady Eccles

Date: 29 November 1734
Case No. No 368.

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Though a contract bona gratia is ever revocable, a contract of separation, founded upon articles of meltreatment, sufficient for a legal separation, is not revocable; and therefore a separate aliment was sustained, though above a reasonable aliment, such as a Judge would have determined. See Appendix.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 413.

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