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[1750] 2 Elchies 362
Subject_1 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Date: Sinclair of Southdun
v.
Sutherland of Forse
20 June 1750
Case No.No. 51.
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Sinclair of Southdun had complained to us in 1744 of the freeholders refusing to enrol him; but observing that the valuation of his lands had not been properly divided from others with which they had been jointly valued, he did not then follow out his complaint, but got them now divided. He applied again to the freeholders in 1749, and on being refused complained again to us. The freeholders answered, That they could not alter what a former meeting had done, and they having refused him in 1744 not for
any defect in the division of his valuation, the freeholders in 1749 could not receive him. As to that point of law the Court was divided; but we first conjoined the two complaints together, and then found him entitled to be enrolled. The freeholders also sought expenses because they had done nothing amiss, but we found none due. (See Dict. No. 221. p. 8845.)
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