Voluntary deeds relating to real estate executed within sixty days of death, by a person at the time labouring under the disease of which he afterwards dies, unless after the execution he is proved to have been seen publicly at church or market, are voidable by the heir at law by an action of reduction, ex capite lecti.

Source: Kinnear, Digest of House of Lords cases (1865), pg. 353.

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