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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)....
Death Bed
Death Bed, Scots Law of. By this law an heir in Scotland was entitled to keep his heritage as against a disposition of it by his predecessor. But the law is repealed by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 81, the Act 'to abolish Reductions ex capite Lecti in Scotland.' See REDUCTION EX CAPITE LECTI.A state of serious illness, sickness which ends in death....
Liege poustie
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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