Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 18 January 1687
A Shetlander v. -
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A Shetlander pursues for maills and duties of some lands in Shetland, on a tack set to him by this King of Denmark's father. Alleged,—This was treason for the pursuer to take rights from a foreign Prince, and a disclaiming of our King. Answered,—The King of Denmark might be our King's vassal in thir lands, even as a nobleman or gentleman, holding of the King, might give a charter to his sub-vassal. But, in Shetland, they have no infeftments, but only allodial rights; and the Crown of Denmark of old had right to it and Orkney.
The Lords ordained the tack and process to be razed and destroyed, and the pursuer to be insisted against for treason.
