Who are entitled to a manse. Who are liable to build and repair a a manse. Minister's claim for house rent.
King's Cgllege of Aberdeen v. Heritors of the Parish of New Machar
Date: 27 February 1734 Case No. No 16.
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The thatch roof of a manse having, during a vacancy, suffered considerably by winds, the heritors agreed to give it a slate roof. The heritors craving retention of a year's vacant stipend to defray the expense of this reparation, upon the act 21st, Parl. 1663; it was found that they could not crave retention in so far as the manse was meliorated, but only for needful repairs of deteriorations happening during the vacancy; and because the limits betwixt these two were difficult to be made out by a proof, the Lords decerned for a third part of the years vacant stipend. See Appendix.
