Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 SALMON FISHING.
Subject_2 SECT. II.

Privileges accessory to, and inherent in, a Right of Salmon Fishing. - Regulations for fishing.

Mathew
v.
Blair

Date: 18 January 1612
Case No. No. 9.

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Salmon Fishings, being inter regalia, are privileged; and they who are infeft by the King therein have thereby right and privilege to draw their nets to the nearest land, and slay their fish upon the same, and to infix paills and trees upon the land adjacent to the river, where the sea ebbs and flows, to dry their nets upon them, and mend their nets. And albeit the said land be bounded to the river, yet the heritors thereof must leave so much ley nearest the river side as is necessary for the foresaid uses of the said fishings, and must neither till it nor big dikes upon it, which may hinder the commodity of said fishing, in manner foresaid.

Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 360. Haddington, MS. No. 2357.