Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER, LORD FOUNTAINHALL.
Anent Registration of seasines
Date: 13 February 1671
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A seasine being quarrelled because not registrate conform to the act of Parliament; it was anwsered, It needed not, being a seasine of lands lying within burgh, viz. Falkland.
Replied, That Falkland was not a burgh royal, but only of regality. Duplied, They opponed the case of Mr. James Cheap against the town of Falkland, wherein it was found to be a burgh royal, though now it bears no burden with the same; and the truth is, they have a charter of erection in a burgh regal, only the whole inhabitants of the town, or their authors, stand obliged to the King, each of them, to have conveniency and accommodation for men and horses every day, it having been the King's palace; for which causes he gave them all the privileges and immunities of a burgh royal. Vide infra, No. 331.
