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In a declarator of a right of constabulary, at the instance of Erskine of Dun against the Town of Montrose, it was objected, That the said right of constabulary was null by the 44th act, Parliament 1455, declaring, that no office in time to come should be given in fee and heritage.—It was answered, The act was gone into desuetude, which the Lords found. See Appendix.