Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION IV.
Decisions common to qualifications upon the old extent and valuation.
Subject_3 SECT. I.
Vassals in lands forfeited by the superior. - Fishings may be joined to lands to complete a qualification. - Proprietor pro indiviso. - Feu-duties payable out of church-lands. - Mortified lands sold. - To give a qualification there must be a feudal vassal in the lands. - Bodies corporate. - Minors. - Exchange of pieces of land. - Infeftment in virtue of a clause of union, and dispensation in a Crown charter. - Burgage lands sold by the burgh. - Where the superior is unentered. - Person divested by a trust-deed. - The claim must describe the title for enrolment. - Eldest sons of Peers. - Charter granted by a factor loco tutoris. - Roman Catholics. - Officers of the Revenue.
Freeholders of Dumbartonshire v. Campbell of Succoth
Date: 10 July 1745 Case No. No 100.
Found in conformity with the above.
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Mr John Campbell, younger of Succoth, advocate, a freeholder of Dumbartonshire, was infeft in the fishing infra bondas lie Crookedshot, extended to two merks tempore pacis, which, joined with his two merk land of Succoth, made up an extent of four merks; but here this difference occurred betwixt this case and the former, in favour of the claimer, that he was possest of lands adjacent to the fishing, and to which it belonged.
The Lords sustained the title.
Reporter, Lord Kilkerran.
Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 415. D. Falconer, v. 1. p. 119.
