Effect of Forfeiture upon the Children of the Rebel.
- v. The Earl of Bothwell's Son
Date: 27 July 1626 Case No. No 5.
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The abbacy of Coldingham being annexed to the Crown by the forfaulture of the Earl of Bothwell, and dishabilitation of John his son; in a removing pursued by one who had acquired a right of some lands therein from the King, John compearing for his interest, excepted upon a posterior act of Parliament, whereby he was restored, and all former acts in his prejudice, with all that had followed thereon, rescinded and annulled; the pursuer replying upon the act salvo jure cujuslibet, ‘was not sustained.’ The like had been found before betwixt the Earl of Nithsdale and the Tenants of Wauchopdale.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 313. Spottiswood, (Forfeiture.) p. 133.
