Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL. Subject_2 I sat in the Outer-House this week.
Daniel Reid, Petitioner
Date: 25 February 1710
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Daniel Reid, late servant to Sir William Bruce, presents a tailyie of the lands and barony of Arnot, (which he had right to by adjudications to the value,) made in favours of his son, and other heirs of tailyie therein mentioned. The Lords demurred to order its registration, it not being offered by the heirs of tailyie, or any having interest therein: And remembered what difficulty they had about Ker of Cavers's tailyie being opposed by his son; and, here, Sir John Bruce of Kinross, and the other heirs of tailyie, did not concur, shunning to be tied up with irritant clauses. Mr Reid offered to prove, by famous witnesses present, that his master, some days before his death, put the tailyie in his hands, and ordered him to give it in to the register; and not to be delivered to any till then.
The Lords thought, if Sir William had given him a mandate in writ, they might have proceeded; or, if any remote branch of the tailyie, though not the immediate nearest, craved it, they might have an interest so to do: but, Mr Reid only founding on a verbal warrant, they laid it aside till June.
