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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. collected by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Date: Walker
v.
Gray
16 December 1755 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In this case the Lords found unanimously that the proprietor of a barony, the lands of which had for time immemorial been astricted to the mill of the barony, having set a part of these lands without a clause of astriction, the tenant was nevertheless astricted ; and it was not to be presumed that the master meant to impair the rent of his mill by liberating the tenant from the astriction unless he had said so in express words.
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