Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION IV.
Decisions common to qualifications upon the old extent and valuation.
Subject_3 SECT. I.
Vassals in lands forfeited by the superior. - Fishings may be joined to lands to complete a qualification. - Proprietor pro indiviso. - Feu-duties payable out of church-lands. - Mortified lands sold. - To give a qualification there must be a feudal vassal in the lands. - Bodies corporate. - Minors. - Exchange of pieces of land. - Infeftment in virtue of a clause of union, and dispensation in a Crown charter. - Burgage lands sold by the burgh. - Where the superior is unentered. - Person divested by a trust-deed. - The claim must describe the title for enrolment. - Eldest sons of Peers. - Charter granted by a factor loco tutoris. - Roman Catholics. - Officers of the Revenue.
M'Leod of Cadbole v. Gordon of Newhall
1765.
December. Case No. No 107.
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William Gordon of Newhall, a minor, but within a few months of twentyone years of age, was enrolled by the freeholders of Cromarty, with a proviso, that he should not be entitled to vote till his majority. Upon a complaint, he was ordered to be expunged, though he had become of age before the complaint was determined.——See Appendix.
