Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.

Case of Renfrewshire

1745, Jan. 18.
Case No. No. 22.

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On report of Arniston, found that a retour reciting sundry particular lands and the old extent thereof severally in the descriptive clause, and the valen. clause, valuing the haill in cumulo to a certain sum, but agreeing with the particulars when summed up,—found I say that that was a sufficient voucher of the old extent of the lands as rated severally in the descriptive clause. Another retour of a wadsetter in the lands of Ellerslie which held blench of the reverser for a penny and the non-entries discharged, this retour in the descriptive clause calls it the L.5 land of old extent, but in the valen. clause it is valued to one penny both tempore pacis, and now that the non-entry duties were discharged. In support of it they also produced a charter designing them at L.5 land, and appealed to a roll in Exchequer, but which is said to be only a copy. But the Court thought that by the act 1743 no other proof of old extent could be admitted but a retour before 1681, and therefore 19th January (to which they took it to advise) they sustained the objection. Vide 22d February, (No. 35.)