Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Margaret Forbes v. The Magistrates of Aberdeen
Date: 26 January 1693
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Margaret Forbes, relict of Mr. John Menzies, professor of divinity at Aberdeen, against the present Magistrates. The Lords assoilyied the Town from all augmentations of his salary preceding 1671, because then, by a general discharge, he had discharged that year and all precedings. But for the year subsequent, and during his service, they found the Town liable for the full extent of the value of these mortifications which were specially destinate for the stipend of the Professor of Theology; and thought his annual discharges of his salary did not cut off his claim, though they did not specially reserve it.
