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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION reported by SIR ROBERT SPOTISWOODE OF PENTLAND.
Subject_2 Such of the following Decision as are of a Date prior to about the year 1620, must have been taken by Spotiswoode from some of the more early Reporters. The Cases which immediately follow have no Date affixed to them by Spotiswoode.
The Laird of Blaws
v.
Windram, Butler's Relict
1631 .February .Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
A Proposition not unfit to be Motioned in Parliament.
To delete or amend the 26th Act of King James IV, whereby tenants are ordained to remain unremoved till the term of Whitsunday, after the death of the liferenter, &c. paying thereafter the duties used and wont, without consideration of the prejudice that heritors may sustain, if liferenters shall set their lands for a mean duty far within the worth, or for an imaginary duty: As Mr George Butler took a tack of the half of Blaws from the compriser thereof, Mr Robert Windram, for payment of ten shillings sterling; after whose death, his relict, by interlocutor, was found to be obliged only in payment of that tackduty, till she was warned.
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