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Robert Dewar, eldest Son to George Dewar, Wright in Edinburgh, v Margaret Wright, his Father's Relict. [1710] Mor 6180 (14 November 1710)
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[1710] Mor 6180
Subject_1 HUSBAND and WIFE. Subject_2 DIVISION XI.
Marriage Dissolving within the Year, all things are Restored hinc inde.
Subject_3 SECT. III.
Marriage presents. Expenses laid out during Marriage.
Robert Dewar, eldest Son to George Dewar, Wright in Edinburgh, v. Margaret Wright, his Father's Relict
Date: 14 November 1710 Case No. No 386.
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In a process at the instance of Robert Dewar, against Margaret Wright, his father's relict, the Lords refused to ordain her to restore to the pursuer a silver medal that had been gifted to her by his father intuitu matrimonii, the marrage having followed; albeit it dissolved within year and day by the husband's death Here was lis de paupere regno.
