Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 INDIVISIBLE.
Subject_2 SECT. IV.

Deed partly ultra vires.

Old College of Aberdeen
v.
The Town of Aberdeen

Date: 13 July 1669
Case No. No 21.

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A college having let a perpetual tack of their lands for 50 merks yearly, which were yearly worth 200 merks, and the same being objected to for want of power in the granters, who could not give such a tack without an adequate onerous cause, the same was found totally null, and refused to be sustained for any limited time or higher duty.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 464. Stair. Gosford.

*** This case is No 27. p. 2533, voce Community.