[1757] Mor 15178
Subject_1 TACK.
Subject_2 SECT. I. Subject-Matter and Nature of Tacks.
Date: James Gordon of Badenscoth
v.
Alexander Hall, his Tenant
10 August 1757
Case No.No. 26.
Nullities of a tack supplied by the tenant's possession.
Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
A letter being addressed to an heritor, who was minor at the time, by a former tenant, agreeing to become bound to accept of a tack of the same farm, for thirteen years, and to pay a rent which was acknowledged to exceed the old rent in two particulars, viz. eight feet of peats, and a stone of butter; this was found equivalent, against the heritor, to a tack, though the letter bore no date; because it was proved, by the heritor’s declaration, that the date of the letter was five years before; and though his curator was not present at receiving the letter, yet he himself became major soon after, and received the additional rent contained in the letter for four years; during which time, as he acknowledged, the tenant possessed upon no other title than the letter.
Act. Burnett.
The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting