Grants from the Crown. - Annexed Property. - Power of granting Jurisdictions. - Power of Revocation.
The King v. The Burgh of Aberdeen
Date: 28 February 1491 Case No. No 2.
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Nane of our Soverane Lordis burrowis hes power to sell, annalzie, or dispone perpetuallie, the commoun gude of the burgh, or ony part thairof, nor zit to set the samin in tak or assedatioun, abone the space of thre zeiris, according to the act of Parliament. Of the quhilk the tenour followis: Item, it is statute and ordanit, anent the commoun gude of our Soveraine Lordis burrowis within this realme, that the rentis of the burrowis, as landis, fischingis, fermis, maillis, milnis, watteris, and zeirlie revenewis, be not set bot for thre zeiris allanerlie: And gif ony happinis to be utherwayis set, that thay be of nane availl, force nor effect in tyme to cum.
