The petitioner sought a faculty for the exhumation of her father's cremated remains from a plot next to the remains of his second wife of 28 years, for their re-interment in the grave of his first wife, the petitioner's mother. The chancellor refused the faculty on the ground that no exceptional reasons existed to justify the exhumation. Although a faculty would allow the remains to join a family grave, the burial of the deceased alongside his second wife, even in distinct plots, was equally a family grave. The chancellor did not accept the argument that the deceased had wished his remains to be buried with the remains of his first wife as he had believed that grave to be full at the time of his death. The petition was issued 25 years after the original interment, with no explanation for the delay in the application, given the death of the deceased's second wife only a few months after his death. [RA]
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