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Subject_1 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Date: Colonel Stewart's Case, - Wigtonshire
24 June 1747
Case No.No. 47.
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Colonel Stewart was infeft in liferent and fee in certain lands, excluding his heirs and assignees, and failing him by decease to return to the granter. Objected, This was neither a liferent nor a right of property, because not descendable to heirs, and was a nominal fictitious right created to give a vote.—We repelled the objection.
*** Eod. die. We gave the like judgment in the Case of Captain Hay, brother to Sir Robert Hay.
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