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It was laid down, as a proposition certain in law, though there was no occasion to give a direct judgment upon it, that an original charter, erecting a burgh, requires no sasine, because there is no person in being at the time who can receive it.
Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 317. Kilkerran, (Sasine.) No. 1. p. 503.