Subject_1 SUPERIOR AND VASSAL. Subject_2 SECT. IV.
Can a Superior interpose another betwixt himself and the Vassal, or divide Superiorities?
Duke of Montrose v. Sir James Colquhoun
Date: 31 January 1781 Case No. No. 15.
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The Duke of Montrose having, with the design of creating freehold-qualifications, parcelled out the superiorities of certain lands, belonging in property to Sir James Colquhoun, among fourteen different persons, by granting them liferent-rights, the Lords reduced these rights, in an action at the vassal's instance, on the ground of the prejudice he sustained from the undue multiplication of superiors.
Fol. Dic. v. 4. p. 312. Fac. Coll.
*** This case is No. 195. p. 8822. voce Member of Parliament.