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[1624] Mor 16393

Subject_1 UDAL RIGHTS.

Sinclair
v.
Hawick

Date: 29 March 1624
Case No. No. 1.
Udal rights must be held by some law ful title.

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A question anent udal lands, in Orkney, betwixt Lawrence Sinclair and one Hawick, wherein the Lords found, That udal lands behoved to be bruiked by some lawful title, and that naked kindness and possession were not sufficient to possess them. It was perceived, that, in Orkney, they name their lands merk-lands, whereof some will not be worth ten merks by year.
Haddington MS. v. 2. No. 3115.

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