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A sasine within burgh, upon a resignation anno 1718, carrying the symbols of earth and stone, was found null upon the act of sederunt, 11th February, 1708, declaring “staff and baston the only symbols to be used in resignations,” though the old custom had been long continued in the town of Aberdeen, where that sasine was granted. See Appendix.
