Found in conformity with the above. In this case, the alleged promise was, not to remove the defender during life, he paying the old duty.
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John Low, in Brechin, pursues Thomas Lyell, Provost thereof, to remove from a tenement in Brechin. Alleged, The pursuer offered never to remove him during his lifetime, he paying the old duty, probatum scripto vel juramento partis.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 561. Nicolson, MS. between Nos 342. & 343. p. 237.
