Legal Subject: Recompence

Case Date Legal Subject Abstract
John Smith v. Marion Wilson, and Others 1791 Succession, Aliment, Heirship Moveables, Heritor, Sasine, Recompence John Smith petitioned the Court of Session to alter an interlocutor pronounced by the Lord Justice Clerk regarding a garden at Muirend. Marion Wilson, wife of Robert Mann, and others answered, asserting that the garden was not a præcipuum and thus not entitled to exclusive claim by the eldest sister. The litigation turned on whether the property constituted a præcipuum subject to the eldest sister's exclusive right.
William Palmer v. Charles Hutton 1783 Debt, Adjudication, Arrestment, Recompence, Property, Insurance William Palmer, as charger, pursued Charles Hutton, as suspender, over the lawfulness of a vessel purchase and whether Palmer’s claim for recompence was barred. Hutton answered in 1783 that the purchase was lawful and the claim not barred, and after the court found the vessel property remained with Palmer and refused Alexander Abercromby’s petition for suspension, Abercromby petitioned in 1785 to have that interlocutor altered.