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Where the astriction was of all grindable corns growing on the lands that should thole fire and water for sustenance of house and family, it was found to comprehend grain made into farm-meal.
Found, That personal services of bringing home the millstones, and keeping up the dams, were inherent in a thirlage established by constitution; but that furnishing thatch to the mill was not, nor could be, exacted without special constitution or possession.
But afterwards, November 17, 1741, Bruce Stuart of Blairhall contra Colonel Erskine, infra, it was found, That mill-services were inherent in a thirlage established by constitution, as well that of furnishing thatch to the mill as other services.
