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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: Lord Yester
v.
Wigtoun
16 July 1628 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
All feu-land annexed, and all other feu-lands whatsomever, should be retoured and availed to merk or penny-land, that his majesty may know the owner thereof, and that the feuars be charged to pay their taxation, conform to their retour.—Ja. VI, Par. 14, cap. 229. The non-entry contained in the retour should be paid to the superior, (of lands not holden of the king,) before the superior be obliged to enter the vassal, conform to the retour. But all precepts, directed out of the Chancery, upon retours, should be past, in the old manner, to sheriffs and other judges ordinary, with the clause capiendo securitatem,—and the party with present payment, in case the service be not found. Ja. VI, Par. 12, cap. 124, in Jine capitis.
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