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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by JAMES bURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Date: Blair
v.
Harle
16 July 1756 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In this case it was unanimously determind that the purchaser of an incomplete right to lands was liable to sustain a challenge of his right, on the head of fraud and circumvention by his author. And accordingly the Lords, in this case, did reduce the right to the lands, on account of the author's having obtained it by fraud and circumvention, though that right was completed in the purchaser, by infeftment, before reduction was raised.
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