Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 TEINDS.
Subject_2 SECT. I.

Nature and Effect of this Right.

Ramsay
v.
Lord Roxburgh

Date: 5 January 1610
Case No. No. 5.

Decimæ debentur parocho.

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Teind-sheaves are of the law the patrimony of the Parson of the parish, and if the Vicar claim any part thereof, he must either prove it by mortification, or failing thereof, if he suspend and supply it per decimalem possessionem, he will not get that to prove by naked witnessess, but must have some adminicle in writ, as tack set by old rental, inhibition, acquittance, decreet, or some other writ of that nature.

Some vicarages are founded upon teind-sheaves, as the most part of the patrimony of their benefices, as the Vicars of Barralenden, Cranston, Kirkbane, and the Vicar of Dunlop, who has seven chalder of meal, and the Vicar of Dumfries, who claims a chalder of bear.

Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 439. Haddington MS. v. 2. No. 2132.