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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: Robert Greir of Barjarg
v.
The Laird of Closeburn
20 January 1637 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Robert Greir of Barjarg charges the Laird of Closeburn to enter and receive him vassal to the twenty-shilling land of Rackhill, whereof the Laird of Closeburn was superior, whereupon he had obtained adjudication against the heirs of the deceased Thomas Greir, his brother. Closeburn suspends, alleging, That he ought to have a year's duty, seeing the land is transmitted to a stranger by adjudication as by comprising, and par est ratio in the one as in the other. To the which it was answered, That, by Act of Parliament, comprisers are ordained to pay a year's duty, which is not ordained in the Act anent adjudications. The Lords found the letters orderly proceeded; and declared that they could not exceed the Act of Parliament.
2d MS. Page 9.
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