Terce

Dower.

Definition source

Kinnear, J. B., Digest of House of Lords Cases Decided on Appeal from Scotland, 1709-1864 — Glossary of Scottish Law Terms (Edinburgh, 1865). Public domain.

Legal Subject: Terce

Case	Date	Legal Subject	Abstract
Gibson v. Reid	1795	Debt, Succession, Aliment, Entail, Terce, Tailzie	The respondent Gibson answered the petition of Christian Kerr Reid, contending that the petitioner’s condescendence underestimated the free rents of Hofelaw and failed to account for equitable relief for the widow. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.
Mead v. Swinton	1796	Succession, Terce, Possession, Sequestration, Interlocutor, Adjudication	Lady Hannay claimed that as a widow she was entitled to the worst of two mansion-houses on the estate of Kirkdale as an appendage to her terce. The common agent maintained that she had no claim to a second mansion-house over and above her terce.
Representatives of Lowthian v. Representatives of Aglianby	1801	Terce, Debt, Burgage	Case involves the question of whether the defendant must apply the rents from Staffold estate in the English county of Cumberland to extinguish a debt due from George Ross to Richard Lowthian, deceased husband to the defender and uncle to Ross.
Robertson v. Inner-House Interlocutor	1797	Aliment, Divorce, Terce, Marriage, Infeftment, Inhibition	William Henry Ralston, defender in the action brought by Robertson, petitioned the Court to alter an interlocutor issued by Lord Swinton. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.
Ross, et al. v. Aglianby	1796	Debt, Terce, Jus RelictÃ¦, Deed, Succession, Interlocutor	Ross and others pursued Aglianby in a dispute over estate distribution involving competing claims to terce and conventional provisions. Mrs Lowthian challenged an interlocutor voiding her conventional provisions and sought to retain funds and claim terce from her late husband's estate, prompting the respondents to answer regarding the exclusion of terce and the effect of obligations to George Mackenzie's trustees. Mrs Sarah Aglianby subsequently petitioned the court to alter its recent interlocutor respecting her own claim to terce from her husband's Scottish lands.
Shanks v. Kirk-Session of Creditors	1796	Succession, Liferent, Disposition, Infeftment, Terce, Seisin	Margaret Shanks pursued the Kirk-Session of Creditors to establish her right to terce in lands which she claimed her late husband Thomas Howie had held in fee by precept of sasine and infeftment at his death. The defenders maintained that the fee had been vested in Thomas's father John Howie rather than in Thomas himself, and accordingly sought to be assoilzied from Shanks's claim.