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[1752] 1 Elchies 250
Subject_1 LIFERENTER.
John Lang
v.
The Duke of Douglas, &c
1752 ,Dec. 21 .
Case No.No. 6.
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The Lords in effect found, that a liferentrix infeft in lands and woods, can only cut for the use of the tenement, (though there were woods that the proprietors were wont to sell every 25 or 30 years,)—and therefore in this case varied Lord Justice-Clerk's interlocutor, who found the Countess's executors liable to Lang for the woods that he was stopped from cutting, and which he had bought from her and paid the price, in respect that she had sold these woods before the usual age of sale of such woods in that country;—and we found them simply liable, leaving out that reason, chiefly because of the precedent betwixt the Duke and Dutchess of Hamilton touching the woods of Kinneil.
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