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(1610) Mor 15012      

Subject_1 SUPERIOR AND VASSAL.
Subject_2 SECT. IV.

Can a Superior interpose another betwixt himself and the Vassal, or divide Superiorities?

Stewart
v.
Lord Abbotshall

16l0. November 6.
Case No. No. 9.

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The King may not interpose a superior betwixt himself and those who become his vassals, by the act of annexation of kirk-lands to the Crown, affirmed by my Lord President to have been practised in foro contradictorio betwixt Colonel Stewart, having Pittenween erected, and the Laird of Abbotshall, after the year 1587 or 1592.

Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 407. Haddington MS. No. 1998.

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