Reduction Ex Capite Lecti

Reduction ex capite lecti. By the law of Scotland the heir in heritage was entitled to reduce all voluntary deeds granted to his prejudice by his predecessor within sixty days preceding the predecessor's death; provided the maker of the deed, at its date, was labouring under the disease of which he died, and did not subsequently go to kirk or market unsupported, Bell's Scots Law Dict. But such reductions have now been abolished by the Reduction ex capite lecti, Abolition Act, 1871 (34 & 35Vict. c. 81).