Liege poustie (legitima potestate], a state of health which gave a person lawful power in Scotland to dispose of his heritable property either mortis causa or otherwise. But the Scots Law of Deathbed has now been abolished by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 81, which enacts that no deed, instrument, or writing made by any person who shall die after the passing of that Act shall be liable to challenge or reduction ex capite lecti.
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