Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION IV.
Decisions common to qualifications upon the old extent and valuation.
Subject_3 SECT. V.
Freeholders must be infeft on proper Titles, and their infeftments recorded, year and day before Enrolment.
George Skene and Charles Hunter v. David Ogilvie
Date: 19 January 1768 Case No. No 169.
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In the course of the contest between the Earls of Strathmore and Panmuir, for the county of Forfar, previous to the general election 1768, the Earl of Strathmore complained of fourteen different enrolments, in virtue of dispositions granted by the Earl of Panmuir.
It was pleaded against one of them, that of David Ogilvie, That the tenements of which his qualification was composed, lay discontiguous, and that infeftment had not been taken upon each tenement respectively, but upon one pair, of the whole.
Answered, There is a clause of union in the charter, with a disposition, declaring, that the infeftment taken super aliqua parte fundi diet, terrarum sufficiens erit pro integris terris, baroniis supra scriptis, vel quavis earundem parte, non obstante quod discontinue jacent.
Replied, That the concern being dissolved by the different dispositions, the effect of the disposition was at an end.
The Court of Session sustained the objection, but the House of Lords, 4th March 1668, reversed the judgment.
Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 424.
*** The same judgment had been given by the Court of Session in thirteen other cases; which was likewise reversed in the House of Lords.
