Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 11 March 1685
The Duke of Queensberry v. Thomas Boreland, &c, Heritors of the King's Stables
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In a reduction pursued by the Duke of Queensberry, high-treasurer, as constable and captain of the castle of Edinburgh, against Thomas Boreland and the other heritors and possessors of the King's stables, alleging they were annexed property, as part and pertinent of the Castle of Edinburgh;—the Lords, on Castlehill's report, found that the ground being designed the King's Stables in the defender's own infeftments, it is a part of the King's annexed property; unless the defenders can instruct that the same was legally dissolved, or document that there were other grounds called the King's Stables belonging to the Castle of Edinburgh, seeing the 176th Act, Pari. 1593, annexes the King's Stables to the Crown; which must be understood of thir, unless other stables be condescended on.
By the 204th Act, Park 1594, and Act 11th 1633, it is declared, that dissolutions shall not extend to the King's Castles, which will also include all their pendicles. But the feu of thir stables was long prior to these Acts, viz. in King James V.'s time, by virtue of general Acts of dissolution then standing.
