Subject_1 MINOR NON TENETUR, &c. Subject_2 SECT. I.
In what cases the privilege competent.
Hamilton v. The Laird of Gaston
1546. Case No. No 2.
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James Hamilton, son and heir to umquhile Sir James Hamilton of Finart, pursued the Laird of Gaston to produce an infeftment granted to his father by King James V. of certain lands through the forfeiture of umquhile Sir James the pursuer's father, to hear and see the said infeftment declared null, because that the forfeiture, with all that had followed on it, was reduced in Parliament. Excepted, That the defender being minor, could not placitare super hæreditate, according to our law; yet the Lords repelled this exception, in respect that these lands came by forfeiture, which was reduced; and thought it a hard matter that a man should be forfeited wrongously, and yet not come by his own, through the minority of a pupil.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. 591. Spottiswood, (Minors and Pupils.) p. 211.*** Sinclair reports this case:
1545. Dec. 11.—Jacobus Hamilton hæres quondam Jacobi Hamilton petiit hæredem domini de Gaston producere infeofamentum suum regium certarum terrarum patri suo factum ratione forisfacturæ dicti quond. Jacobi et illud decerneri nullum quod dicta forisfactura jam extat per decretum parliamenti reduct. cum omnibus inde secutis. Reus quare minor annis allegebat se non placitare teneri in hoc casu super hæreditate sua secundum leges regni et regiæ majestatis. Domini tamen in hoc casu interlocuti sunt minorem teneri reddere super hæreditate illa ad cum delata per forisfacturam quia etiam extat reduct prout erat in hoc casu; alias sequi magnum inconveniens et absurdum, et injuste hereditate sua defraudaretur heres dicti domini Jacobi injuste forisfacti.
