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points of fact stated by Mr. 

 Scarlett to the jury, and went 

 over the whole of the evidence 

 given on both sides. 



The jury retired to deliberate ; 

 and in an hour and a half brought 

 in a verdict for the defendants. 



COURT OF CHANCERY, WEDNES- 

 DAY, JULY 15. 



Marriaze Settlement. 



Kennedy and others'\. The Earl 

 of Cassilis and others. — This was 

 an application to dissolve an in- 

 junction. The facts connected 

 with it were as follow: — Lord 

 Kennedy, the eldest son of the 

 Earl of Cassilis, paid his addresses, 

 towards the latter end of the year 

 1813, to Miss Ellen Allardice, a 

 young lady, at that time 17 years 

 of age, residing in Aberdeen, and 

 heiress to a very considerable 

 property — 30,000/. in Bank stock, 

 and landed estates in Scotland to 

 the amount of between 3 and 

 4',000/. a-year. Lord Kennedy 

 was then 19 years of age ; and 

 his addresses having been en- 

 couraged by the young lady, as 

 well as her mother, with whom 

 she lived, he communicated his 

 wishes on the subject to his 

 father, who resided in London. 

 The mother lost no time in in- 

 forming Mr. Innies, one of her 

 daughter's guardians, and he in 

 consequence came to London, 

 for the purpose of making with 

 the Earl of Cassilis the proper 

 arrangements previous to the 

 marriage. The Earl of Cassilis 

 constanly professed that money 

 was no object eitlier with himself 

 or his son. It happened, how- 

 ever, that there were many diffi- 



culties in the way of a final settle- 

 ment. Various sets of propositions 

 were made by Lord Cassilis, none 

 of which were agreed to by Mr. 

 Innies. The last set of proposi- 

 tions made by the Earl of Cassilis, 

 declared that Miss Allardice 

 should have 1 ,000/. a year, during 

 the marriage, to her sole and 

 separate use — that if she should 

 survive Lord Kennedy, this 

 annual sum should be increased 

 — that her mother's (Mrs. Allar- 

 dice's) jointure should be in- 

 creased from 600/. a year, which 

 it then was, to 1,000/. a year; 

 and that the house in Aberdeen 

 should also be settled upon her. 

 It was proposed that 1,500/. of 

 the Bank stock should be applied 

 to purchase lands, in order to 

 produce the 1,000/. a year for 

 the sole and separate use of Mrs. 

 Allardice ; and that the remainder 

 of the real and personal property 

 should be settled on the issue of 

 the marriage. While these pro- 

 positions were under the con- 

 sideration of Mr. Innies, Lord 

 Kennedy was in Aberdeen. It 

 was now about the end of April, 

 1814. He was anxious to hasten 

 his marriage with Miss Allardice : 

 he told her of the propositions 

 which had been made ; he himself 

 believed that all the necessary 

 deeds were in preparation, and, 

 as the lady was perfectly satis- 

 fied with the propositions, she 

 was prevailed upon to marry Lord 

 Kennedy, and accordingly the 

 marriage was solemnized on the 

 1st of May. Some time after 

 this, a marriage settlement was 

 made, which varied very con- 

 siderably from the propositions, 

 particularly with regard to the 

 1,000/. a-year to Lady Kennedy's 



sole 



