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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON, OF DURIE.
Date: The Earl of Tullibarden
v.
The Baron of Monesk
2 March 1636 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The Earl of Tullibarden pursuing the Baron of Monesk, as assignee constituted to all the reversions granted to his brother, umquhile William Earl of Tullibarden, for exhibition of certain contracts made betwixt his umquhile brother and the said defender, concerning the wadset of certain lands to him, under reversion, that he might have the transumpts of the said contracts: And the defender alleging that the assignation to the reversions was not registrat in the secretary's registers, as is required by the Act of Parliament;—the Lords repelled this allegeance, because it was not proponed for any who acclaimed any better right to this reversion than this pursuer; neither are assignations to reversions contained in the act of Parliament, which the Lords could not extend.
Act. Nicolson. Alt. Stuart. Gibson, Clerk. Vid. 25th November 1626, Turnbul, and the cases there.
Page 799.
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