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Subject_1 ADJUDICATION.
Kerr
v.
Brighton, (or Crighton)
1737 ,Dec .23 .
Case No.No. 17.
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The Lords were very unwilling to determine the general point, Whether there can be a negative prescription of a right of property, without a positive prescription in another? But they thought that an adjudication against an apparent-heir of one who died about a century ago, whose propinquity is denied, is not, sufficient to the Ordinary to take a proof of that propinquity.
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