The petitioner sought a faculty for the exhumation of the remains of her husband and their re-interment elsewhere within the churchyard. Shortly after her husband's interment the petitioner had obtained a faculty for the reservation of the plot next to her husband in order that she could be buried next to him in the fullness of time. A mistake with the parish records meant that someone else was subsequently buried in the reserved plot. The petitioner, wishing to avoid distress to the family of the person interred next to her husband, sought the re-interment of her husband in a plot elsewhere in the churchyard, where she could, in time, be buried alongside him. In granting the faculty, the chancellor held that, although there was no mistake at the time of the burial of the petitioner's husband, the subsequent mistake changing the surroundings of his grave amounted to exceptional circumstances such that the faculty should be granted. [RA]
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