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Subject_1 BURGH ROYAL.
Nicol
v.
Grosett
1736 ,July 16 .
Case No.No. 7.
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The Lords sustained the reason of suspension that the suspender had renounced 40 days before Whitsunday. What moved most of them was, that there was no evidence by judicial proceedings of the custom of the burgh to renounce before Candlemas. We all agreed that as to the form of warning in burgh, the custom of the burgh, and not Queen Mary's act is the rule; but several doubted whether the act was not the rule as to the time.
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