Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT.
Subject_2 DIVISION IV. Decisions common to qualifications upon the old extent and valuation.
Subject_3 SECT. IV. Trust Oath.
Date: Turnbull
v.
Sir David Carnegie
26 February 1796
Case No.No 163.
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At an election meeting, a freeholder having moved, that if any person should withdraw, after voting for Preses and Clerk, he should be held as having done so in order to avoid the trust oath; and, therefore, should be struck off the roll; a person having accordingly done so, a majority of the freeholders expunged him from the roll; and the Court of Session affirmed their decision. —See Appendix.
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