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Latin. On account of charitable cause; dutiful considerations. If legacies exceed the defunct's own part, then they abate proportionally, unless there be a preference granted by the testator, or a privilege by law, whereof I know none with us, for even a legacy ob pias causa, viz., a mortification to a kirk, was found to have no privilege, but it and other legacies suffered proportional deduction, seeing they exceeded the dead's part. Provisions made by a son to his father ob pias causas are those which proceed from the affectionate regard and natural duty which the son is bound morally to render to ...