Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION reported by SIR ROBERT SPOTISWOODE OF PENTLAND.
Subject_2 Such of the following Decision as are of a Date prior to about the year 1620, must have been taken by Spotiswoode from some of the more early Reporters. The Cases which immediately follow have no Date affixed to them by Spotiswoode.

George Hatton
v.
The Laird of Frendraught

Date: 23 January 1624

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John Meldrum, having acquired from Andrew Meldrum the heritable right of the lands of Ordlie, &c. to be holden of the said Andrew in feu blench, by an infeftment, and of George Hatton the said Andrew's superior, by another; afterwards John becoming rebel, and remaining year and day at the horn, his liferent-escheat is disponed by Andrew to the Laird of Frendraught, he not yet having become George's vassal: Thereafter, he being received by George, the said George pursued a declarator of his liferent, as having accresced to him jure superioritatis. It was alleged by the Laird of Frendraught, that it pertained only to Andrew, (of whom only he held, the time of his rebellion,) and to his donator. The Lords found the allegeance relevant, and excluded the pursuer from claiming any right to the said liferent.

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