[1740] Mor 14935
Subject_1 SUCCESSION.
Subject_2 SECT. III. Succession a testato.
Date: Duke of Hamilton
v.
Earl of Selkirk
8 January 1740
Case No.No. 41.
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The late Earl of Selkirk, superior of the lands of Balgray, having made a purchase of the property, but without completing the same by a resignation ad remanentiam, the Duke of Hamilton, his heir of conquest, claimed the same, as being a separate subject, not consolidated with the superiority. The Lords found, That they belonged to the Earl of Rutherglen, who was heir of investiture of the superiority; and the same was found with regard to the teinds of Crawford, purchased in by the defunct, the lands being entailed upon the Earl of Rutherglen.
*** This case is No. 10. p. 5615. voce Heritage and Conquest.
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