[1731] Mor 10732
Subject_1 PRESCRIPTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION I. Negative Prescription of Forty Years.
Subject_3 SECT. V. Res merę facultatis.
Date: Lord Dun
v.
Town of Montrose
7 December 1731
Case No.No 41.
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A right of constabulary which had been long in desuetude, and not exercised by any one act of jurisdiction for many more than 40 years, was found to fall by the negative prescription, and that it was not res meræ facultatis. See Appendix.
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