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Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Date: Cavers Douglas's Case
6 January 1748
Case No.No. 41.
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Upon the claims given in pursuant to the late act for abolishing heritable jurisdictions, and for giving our opinion touching the value of them, we found in the case of Cavers Douglas, that in respect of a private act of Parliament in 1633, proceeding on his own petition, whereby his Sheriffship was declared redeemable by the creditors for L.20,000 Scots, he therefore could claim no more. But in our report to the King in Council, we also reported our opinion touching the value of it, by the same rule that we valued other heritable Sheriffships, if it had not been so redeemable.
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