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Subject_1 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Case from Aberdeenshire
1745 ,Feb .12 .
Case No.No. 32.
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On a complaint Lord Braco, &c. against certain freeholders in Aberdeenshire, the like question occurred as we decided 19th December 1740, (No. 5.) betwixt Sir James Carnegie against the Freeholders of Mearns, Whether vassals of forfeiting persons who now hold of the Crown but took not the benefit of the Clan act, and therefore their superiority may still be sold, I say, whether they are entitled to continue on the roll while they so hold of the Crown, agreeably to 25th act Parl. 6th, Jas. II.? And we found they were.
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